| 100% | THANKSFOR | 9 | With 40-Across, 8-Across's signature song |
| 65% | PIANO | 5 | With 15-Across, Billy Joel's signature song |
| 64% | WALKON | 6 | With 43-Across, Lou Reed's signature song: 2 wds. |
| 57% | INTWOWORDS | 10 | With 40 Across, Goldwyn's ''No way!'' |
| 55% | AULD | 4 | With 8- and 9-Across, traditional New Year's song |
| 54% | NEWYORK | 7 | With 42-Across, Frank Sinatra signature song |
| 53% | ISLANDSIN | 9 | With 40-Across, song that reached #1 on Billboard's country and Hot 100 charts in 1983: 2 wds. |
| 52% | TUNA | 4 | With 40 Across, diner orders |
| 50% | SHRIMP | 6 | With 40 Across, seafood dish with garlic |
| 50% | FISTBUMPOR | 10 | With 40 and 64 Across, congratulatory choices |
| 50% | HOV | 3 | With 40-Across, car pooler's perk |
| 49% | SONGWRITER | 10 | 2024 posthumous album with songs by 40-Across |
| 49% | MISTER | 6 | With 40 Across, Hanks' role in 17/64 Across |
| 48% | THEALIENAND | 11 | With 40 Across, historic rules for subduing UFO occupants? |
| 48% | ARAL | 4 | With 40-Across, onetime world's fourth-largest lake |
| 48% | ANIMAL | 6 | With 8 Across, raising livestock |
| 48% | ABRAHAM | 7 | With 40 Across, bearded VIP with a February 12th birthday |
| 47% | LAVIE | 5 | With 6-Down, signature song for Edith Piaf |
| 47% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 47% | SMELLSLIKE | 10 | With 40-Across, Nirvana's biggest hit: 2 wds. |
| 46% | BUTTONS | 7 | With 43 Across, Oscar song for 1947 |
| 46% | EINERECLINER | 12 | With 117 Across, songs to relax by? |
| 46% | THEFIRSTTIMEEVERI | 17 | With 127 Across, the best-selling hat song of 1972? |
| 46% | DONTCRYFOR | 10 | With 115 Across, song from a WAC musical? |
| 46% | JEANIEWITH | 10 | With 99 Across, song about a carnival attraction? |
| 46% | ESTEFAN | 7 | Gloria with the signature song "Conga" |
| 45% | SAY | 3 | With 8-Across, pourer's instruction |
| 45% | TOMORROWISALONG | 15 | With 69 Across, Bob Dylan song about the future |
| 45% | AUDIT | 5 | With 8-Across, accountant's track record? |
| 44% | BOXED | 5 | With 40-Across, party supplies found in this puzzle's four corners |