| 100% | ARLO | 4 | With 23-Across, singer of the song referenced at 6-Down |
| 46% | BRYAN | 5 | With 36-Across, "Summer of '69" singer with the 1985 song "Heaven" |
| 45% | SAM | 3 | ___ Smith, singer of the massive hit song "Stay With Me" |
| 44% | MICHAEL | 7 | With 46-Across, singer who was the top-earning dead celebrity of 2017, at $75 million |
| 44% | SAM | 3 | With 6-Across, winner of four Grammys at the 2015 Grammy Awards |
| 44% | PATSY | 5 | With 33-Across, singer of "Crazy," the 1992 campaign song for H. Ross Perot |
| 43% | DIONNEWARWICK | 13 | Singer with song titles at 16-, 18-, 23- and 35-/38-Across |
| 42% | DOLLYPARTONS | 12 | With 27-Across, Netflix anthology series dramatizing the stories behind some of a singer's songs: 2 wds. |
| 42% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 42% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 42% | ALBERT | 6 | With 23-Across, author of the general theory of relativity |
| 41% | PETERCETERA | 11 | Singer with the 1986 #1 song “Glory of Love”: 2 wds. |
| 41% | MILEY | 5 | With 32-Across, singer-songwriter who exclaimed "I just won my first Grammy!" during her performance of "Flowers" at the 2024 Grammy Awards |
| 41% | PHILCOLLINS | 11 | Singer with the 1988 #1 song “Groovy Kind of Love”: 2 wds. |
| 41% | MURDER | 6 | With 23-Across, subtitle of the first season of "American Horror Story" |
| 40% | NALA | 4 | Singer of the song "Shadowland" in "The Lion King" |
| 40% | SHAKIRA | 7 | Colombian singer of the song Whenever, Wherever |
| 40% | PATSY | 5 | With 6-Across, singer of the lyrics “I’m crazy for trying and crazy for crying / And I’m crazy for loving you” |
| 40% | SIA | 3 | Singer of the 2014 song "Chandelier" |
| 40% | SMACK | 5 | With 33-Down, precisely, as in the middle of 17-, 23-, 51- and 62-Across |
| 39% | ELON | 4 | With 23 Across, CEO of 15 Across |
| 39% | ADELE | 5 | Singer of the 2015 hit song "Hello" |
| 39% | SZA | 3 | Singer of the hit song "Kill Bill" |
| 39% | REBECCABLACK | 12 | Singer of the viral 2011 song “Friday” |
| 39% | MAC | 3 | Apple at the cores of 17- and 53-Across and 10- and 23-Down |
| 39% | ELSA | 4 | Singer of the Disney song "Into the Unknown" |
| 39% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 39% | SADE | 4 | Singer of the 1985 song "The Sweetest Taboo" |
| 39% | SIA | 3 | Singer of the Top 10 2014 song "Chandelier" |
| 39% | SADE | 4 | Singer of the 1992 song "No Ordinary Love" |