| 100% | TRA | 3 | With 31-Down, lilting song syllables |
| 58% | ALOHA | 5 | With 31 Down, Honolulu landmark |
| 57% | CARNE | 5 | With 31 Down, grilled steak dish |
| 56% | TRA | 3 | With 42-Down, nonsense syllables in a song |
| 49% | BALI | 4 | With 36 Down, ''South Pacific'' song |
| 49% | SINGLE | 6 | With 31-Across, 2010 Grammy Song of the Year by Beyoncé |
| 48% | IVEHADIT | 8 | With 31-Down, exasperated exclamation |
| 48% | ARM | 3 | With 31-Down, jazz legend |
| 48% | MERRY | 5 | With 31-Down, holiday greeting |
| 47% | AYE | 3 | With 31-Down, bosun's reply |
| 47% | ALAN | 4 | With 31-Down, "Sweet Liberty" star |
| 47% | TINA | 4 | With 31-Down, "Proud Mary" singer |
| 47% | HTIP | 4 | With 31-Down, breaking records, maybe |
| 47% | PUTS | 4 | With 31-Down, finalizes, in publishing |
| 47% | EDIT | 4 | Work with 31-Down |
| 46% | COMEHELL | 8 | With 31-Down, no matter what happens |
| 46% | ANG | 3 | With 31-Down, "Life of Pi" director |
| 46% | ARLO | 4 | 1968 album with the song "John Looked Down" |
| 45% | FREDDIE | 7 | With 31-Down, astronomer's favorite rock singer? |
| 45% | LEMON | 5 | With 31-Down, its products are often squeezed |
| 45% | BAD | 3 | With 31-Down, it doesn’t bode well |
| 45% | BEN | 3 | With 31-Down, star of "Night at the Museum" |
| 44% | BABY | 4 | With 30- and 31-Across, 1992 rap song that "Anaconda" samples extensively |
| 44% | AREVERSAL | 9 | With 31-Down, feature of this puzzle's theme entries |
| 44% | ERNST | 5 | With 31-Down, Viennese-born photographer who pioneered in journalism |
| 43% | RACHEL | 6 | With 31-Across, Debbie Downer portrayer on "SNL" who wrote the memoir "Girl Walks Into a Bar ..." |
| 43% | USAIN | 5 | With 31-Down, world record holder in the 100-meter dash |
| 42% | WIZ | 3 | Broadway musical with the song "Ease on Down the Road," with "The" |
| 42% | LOLA | 4 | Girl in a Manilow song with "a dress cut down to there" |
| 42% | LOLA | 4 | Woman in a Manilow song with "a dress cut down to there" |