| 100% | MOZART | 6 | "The culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music," per Tchaikovsky |
| 37% | PSYCHEDELIC | 11 | Style of music that emerged in the 60s which has sub-genres like trance music |
| 36% | ALPS | 4 | High points in The Sound of Music |
| 35% | ALPS | 4 | The hills that are alive in "The Sound of Music" |
| 35% | ALTERNATIVE | 11 | ___ rock, style of music that was popularized in the 90s and has sub-genres like emo and post-grunge |
| 33% | SOH | 3 | The note that was "a needle pulling thread" according to Maria in "The Sound of Music" |
| 33% | GAZEBO | 6 | Where Maria and the Captain have their first kiss in "The Sound of Music" |
| 33% | EOM | 3 | Abbr. in the subject of an e-mail that has no body |
| 33% | TAMPABAY | 8 | Team that has a tankful of rays in the back of its ballpark |
| 33% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 32% | ERA | 3 | Rock ___ (period of music that began in the 1950s) |
| 32% | UVULA | 5 | "That lil' dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat," per Cardi B |
| 32% | UVULA | 5 | "That little dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat," per Cardi B |
| 32% | LIMO | 4 | Car that might have ice buckets and bottles of champagne in the back seat |
| 32% | BUNDT | 5 | Type of cake that has a hole in the middle |
| 32% | MTV | 3 | Music channel launched in 1981 that popularized the concept of "video jockey": Abbr. |
| 31% | AFL | 3 | NYSE symbol of the co. that had a duck in the opening credits of May's "Scoob!" |
| 31% | PADRES | 6 | One of five MLB teams that has appeared in the World Series but never won the title |
| 31% | NIGERIA | 7 | Country of 180+ million people that has never participated in the Winter Olympics |
| 31% | EBIKE | 5 | Type of bicycle popularized in the 21st century that has rechargeable batteries: Hyph. |
| 31% | ALCOA | 5 | Co. that just announced the closure of its Point Comfort refinery in Texas |
| 31% | SHARP | 5 | In music, an accidental that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 31% | ICEBOX | 6 | "I have eaten the plums that were in the ___" (start of a William Carlos Williams poem) |
| 31% | ISLE | 4 | ___ of Wight Festival, music festival in the U.K. that is held annually in Newport |
| 31% | QUAFFLE | 7 | Scarlet-colored ball in the wizarding game of Quidditch that's worth 10 points |
| 30% | TITAN | 5 | Saturn's moon that has hills named after the central characters in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 30% | ISRAEL | 6 | Country that, according to its tourist bureau, has the highest number of museums per capita |
| 30% | TERN | 4 | Arctic ___, a bird that has the longest migration route of any animal in the world |
| 30% | SHARP | 5 | Accidental in music that raises the pitch of the following note by one chromatic semitone |
| 30% | BLACKBIRD | 9 | "The Bird-catcher and the ___," a popular fable by 38-Down that has a traditional tune in the Isle of Man |