| 100% | LOOK | 4 | With 36-Down, John Lennon song |
| 75% | BALI | 4 | With 36 Down, ''South Pacific'' song |
| 67% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song with the refrain "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." |
| 67% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." |
| 60% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song |
| 60% | WOMAN | 5 | John Lennon song |
| 58% | CLEANUPTIME | 11 | John Lennon song off "Double Fantasy" |
| 57% | HAT | 3 | With 36 Down, show of gratitude |
| 57% | WOMAN | 5 | 1980 John Lennon song |
| 57% | SOMETHING | 9 | With 27-Down, song from 36-Across |
| 57% | LATE | 4 | With 36 Down, library patron's penalty |
| 57% | KARMA | 5 | "Instant ___!" (1970 John Lennon song) |
| 56% | YOKO | 4 | With 24-Down, John Lennon's widow |
| 55% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon hit song |
| 55% | WOMAN | 5 | John Lennon love song |
| 54% | ARLO | 4 | 1968 album with the song "John Looked Down" |
| 52% | HAKUNA | 6 | With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim Rice |
| 52% | GETS | 4 | "Whatever ___ You Thru the Night" (1974 #1 John Lennon song) |
| 51% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon song whose refrain begins, "You may say I'm a dreamer" |
| 51% | WOMAN | 5 | John Lennon song that ends "I love you, yeah, yeah, now and forever" |
| 51% | IMAGINE | 7 | John Lennon's 1971 song about being a dreamer |
| 51% | ALL | 3 | With 36-Down and 38-Across, Blink-182 hit song, and a description of four long answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | ONO | 3 | She cowrote John Lennon's song "Imagine" |
| 49% | AND | 3 | With 36-Down, "Next ..." |
| 49% | ITS | 3 | With 36-Down, "Easy!" |
| 49% | ATA | 3 | With 36-Down, cocked |
| 48% | ITISAN | 6 | With 36-Down, "Very strange ..." |
| 48% | THE | 3 | With 36-Down, jail, slangily |
| 48% | IMAGINE | 7 | Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." |
| 48% | BRYAN | 5 | With 36-Across, "Summer of '69" singer with the 1985 song "Heaven" |