| 100% | TONE | 4 | "At the sound of the _____ ..." |
| 100% | PLOP | 4 | Sound at the start of the Alka-Seltzer jingle |
| 98% | BELLS | 5 | Sounds at the end of classes |
| 97% | LONGE | 5 | Sound at the front of East Hampton |
| 97% | ROAR | 4 | Sound at the start of MGM films |
| 97% | BRR | 3 | Sound at the end of December, appropriately? |
| 96% | GONG | 4 | Sound heard at the end of "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| 96% | ROARS | 5 | Sounds heard at the start of MGM movies |
| 95% | ROAR | 4 | Sound heard at the start of an MGM film |
| 95% | ROAR | 4 | Sound heard at the start of every MGM movie |
| 94% | HARDC | 5 | Consonant sound at the beginning of consonant |
| 93% | WOOF | 4 | Sound from one at the end of one's leash |
| 93% | ROAR | 4 | Sound at the start of an M-G-M film |
| 93% | LONGE | 5 | Vowel sound at the end of 39-Across |
| 92% | BEEP | 4 | Sound at the end of a washing machine's cycle, say |
| 92% | APOCOPE | 7 | Loss of sounds at the end of a word |
| 92% | SONIC | 5 | "Service at the Speed of Sound" fast-food franchise |
| 92% | SONIC | 5 | "Service at the Speed of Sound" fast-food chain |
| 92% | SILENCE | 7 | The pleasing sound of nothing at all |
| 92% | RAP | 3 | Sound of a knock at the door |
| 91% | NUN | 3 | What Maria is planning to become at the start of "The Sound of Music" |
| 91% | OBOE | 4 | Sounder of the tuning note at the start of an orchestra rehearsal |
| 90% | HORN | 4 | Sound heard at the end of a period during basketball or hockey games |
| 88% | DING | 4 | Sound of a wrong answer at the National Spelling Bee |
| 87% | BAABAA | 6 | Couple of sounds often heard at the shearing shed |
| 86% | APHERESIS | 9 | Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum" |
| 85% | LETEM | 5 | "___ In" (Paul McCartney song on the album "Wings at the Speed of Sound") (2 wds.) |
| 83% | LILT | 4 | The sound of the pipes |
| 83% | EXOCET | 6 | Anti-ship missile that skims waves at nearly the speed of sound |
| 82% | NEXT | 4 | At the front of the line |