| 100% | RINGO | 5 | With 37-Across, "Photograph" singer with the 1970 hit single "It Don't Come Easy" |
| 52% | LINDARONSTADT | 13 | "You're No Good" singer with the 1977 hit single "It's So Easy": 2 wds. |
| 45% | SHAKIRA | 7 | Colombian singer with the 2006 #1 hit "Hips Don't Lie" |
| 44% | MATILDA | 7 | Single on 37-Across with the lyric "You don't have to go home" |
| 44% | MYLIFE | 6 | Billy Joel hit with the line "I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home" |
| 44% | DESREE | 6 | Singer with the 1994 hit single "You Gotta Be" |
| 43% | RINGO*R | 7 | "It Don't Come Easy" singer |
| 43% | STARR | 5 | "It Don't Come Easy" singer |
| 43% | FERGIE | 6 | Black Eyed Peas singer/songwriter with the solo hit, "Big Girls Don't Cry" |
| 42% | SZA | 3 | One-named singer with the 2023 hit single "Kill Bill" |
| 42% | ASHANTI | 7 | Single-named singer with the 2002 hit "Foolish" |
| 42% | STARR | 5 | "It Don't Come Easy" singer, 1971 |
| 42% | TAKINITBACK | 11 | 2022 studio album by 29-Across that features the hit singles "Bad for Me" and "Don't I Make It Look Easy" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | LEE | 3 | Country singer Brice with the #5 hit "I Don't Dance" |
| 42% | PATBOONE | 8 | Singer with the #1 hit "Don't Forbid Me" |
| 42% | INGRAM | 6 | Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 hit "I Don't Have the Heart" |
| 41% | PETSOUNDS | 9 | Beach Boys album with the hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice" ... or things hidden in 17-, 31-, 37- and 49-Across |
| 41% | DIDO | 4 | Single-named British singer with the 2000 hit "Thank You" |
| 41% | SHAKIRA | 7 | Singer who hit #1 in 2006 with the Spanish/English-language "Hips Don't Lie" |
| 41% | TAYLORDAYNE | 11 | Singer with the 1988 hit "Don't Rush Me": 2 wds. |
| 41% | STARR | 5 | "It Don't Come Easy" was his first solo hit |
| 41% | AMERICANWOMAN | 13 | 1970 No. 1 hit with the lyric “I don’t need your war machines” |
| 41% | BOBBYMCFERRIN | 13 | Singer with the 1988 hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy": 2 wds. |
| 41% | SYL | 3 | Singer Johnson with the 1969 hit "Is It Because I'm Black" |
| 40% | DEVO | 4 | New Wave band with the 1980 hit single "Whip It" |
| 40% | ASHE | 4 | One-named singer with the hit 2019 single "Moral of the Story" |
| 40% | INI | 3 | Singer Kamoze with the 1994 hit "Here Comes the Hotstepper" |
| 40% | INI | 3 | Singer Kamoze with the '94 hit "Here Comes the Hotstepper" |
| 40% | DUALIPA | 7 | Singer with the 2019 #2 hit "Don't Start Now" |
| 39% | WAR | 3 | 1970 #1 hit with the line "What is it good for?" |