| 100% | TOES | 4 | Zac Brown song with the line "Concrete and cars are their own prison bars" |
| 37% | WHENWEDANCE | 11 | Sting song with the lyric "Angels will run and hide their wings" |
| 36% | FISHHEADS | 9 | 1978 novelty song with the line "Eat them up! Yum!" ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 34% | GLASSONION | 10 | Allusive Beatles song with the line “the Walrus was Paul” |
| 33% | CCRIDER | 7 | Classic blues song with the line "I'd rather be dead than to stay here and be your dog" |
| 33% | VAST | 4 | Alternative rock band with the song "Touched" whose name is an abbreviation and also the title of their first album |
| 33% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA song with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 33% | YER | 3 | "__ Blues": Beatles song with the line "Even hate my rock and roll" |
| 32% | WATERLOO | 8 | 39-Down song with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 32% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line "My tears are falling like rain from the sky" |
| 32% | IMALOSER | 8 | Beatles song with the line “My tears are falling like rain from the sky” |
| 32% | APEA | 4 | "I Got ___" (silly children's song with the line "Why is everyone laughing at me?") |
| 32% | ISIS | 4 | Dylan song with the line "What drives me to you is what drives me insane" |
| 31% | ONELOVE | 7 | Bob Marley song with the line "Let's get together and feel all right" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | LITTLEJEANNIE | 13 | 1980 Elton John song with the line "I want you to be my acrobat": 2 wds. |
| 31% | CANIKICKIT | 10 | A Tribe Called Quest song with the line “Mr. Dinkins, would you please be my mayor?” |
| 31% | HELLO | 5 | 48-Down song with the line "But when I call, you never seem to be home" |
| 31% | APIANO | 6 | "I Love __": Irving Berlin song with the line "So you can keep your fiddle and your bow" |
| 31% | TAKEN | 5 | 2008 movie with the line "I will find you, and I will kill you" |
| 30% | MAMBO | 5 | “Papa Loves ___” (Perry Como song with the lines “Look at ’em sway with it” and “Shoutin’ olè with it”) |
| 30% | MRSANDMAN | 9 | Classic song with the line "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace" |
| 30% | EMMA | 4 | Classic novel with the line "You must be the best judge of your own happiness" |
| 30% | ONELOVE | 7 | Classic 1977 song with the repeated line "Let's get together and feel all right" |
| 30% | CLUE | 4 | 1985 cult-classic film with the line “Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable” |
| 30% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| 30% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / and be ashamed-" |
| 29% | DEARJOHN | 8 | Song on 15-Across with the lyric "You are an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | IHATEMEN | 8 | "Kiss Me, Kate" song with the lyric "For husbands are a boring lot and only give you bother" |
| 29% | MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW | 21 | Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle |
| 29% | LOLITA | 6 | 1955 novel with the line "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight" |