| 100% | RONDO | 5 | "Blue ___ à la Turk," jazz standard from Dave Brubeck |
| 48% | DAVE | 4 | Brubeck who composed "Blue Rondo a la Turk" |
| 45% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Jazz standard on the Dave Brubeck Quartet's album "Time Out" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ALA | 3 | Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo ___ Turk" |
| 36% | BOLT | 4 | A ___ from the blue |
| 35% | INFIRMARY | 9 | St James __ Blues, a music standard |
| 34% | NORMATIVE | 9 | Derived from a standard |
| 34% | ROBIN | 5 | Hatchling from a blue egg |
| 33% | KNIFEFISH | 9 | Blue __ is a native sea chub from Australia |
| 33% | EMU | 3 | Hatchling from a blue-green egg |
| 33% | TRAVIATA | 8 | La __, Verdi opera from a play by Alexandre Dumas |
| 32% | TAKETHEATRAIN | 13 | Jazz standard whose title refers to a New York City subway line (4 wds.) |
| 32% | CHARTREUX | 9 | Blue cat from France with a double coat of fur |
| 32% | COBALT | 6 | Bright blue hue from a metal chemical element |
| 31% | WOAD | 4 | Blue dye obtained from a flowering plant by the ancient Britons |
| 31% | EMMASTONE | 9 | Actress from La La Land, Easy A and Zombieland |
| 31% | NEUROTOXIN | 10 | Item you can get from a blue ringed octopus |
| 31% | SKY | 3 | "Why is the ___ blue?" (question from a child, maybe) |
| 31% | SNORE | 5 | Sound from a La-Z-Boy, perhaps |
| 31% | TOHOPE | 6 | Dave Brubeck's 1996 live album: "___! A Celebration", a recording of a performance of the Catholic mass |
| 30% | ROMULAN | 7 | ___ Ale, beverage from "Star Trek" that has a characteristic blue color |
| 30% | ALA | 3 | Brubeck's "Blue Rondo ___ Turk" |
| 29% | NEED | 4 | “We ___ a Little Christmas” (holiday standard originally from “Mame”) |
| 29% | SNORE | 5 | Sound coming from a La-Z-Boy, perhaps |
| 29% | LAND | 4 | "La La ___," Oscar-winning 2016 movie about a jazz pianist directed by Damien Chazelle |
| 29% | AZIMUTH | 7 | In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction |
| 29% | CARTE | 5 | A la ___ |
| 29% | CARTE | 5 | A la ____ |
| 29% | MODE | 4 | A la ___ |
| 29% | MODE | 4 | A la ____ |