| 100% | UNA | 3 | __ corda: played using the piano's soft pedal |
| 47% | DAMPER | 6 | Piano's soft pedal, for one |
| 46% | UNACORDA | 8 | Play piano with soft pedal, only hit one string |
| 35% | CELESTES | 8 | Piano pedals that mute the strings |
| 35% | ADVOCATE | 8 | Play devil's __; use the contentious argument |
| 35% | SWIFT | 5 | Taylor ___, "Valentine's Day" actress who plays the banjo, guitar piano and ukulele |
| 34% | OMNI | 4 | Where the Hawks used to play |
| 34% | HANDS | 5 | They play the piano |
| 33% | CHORD | 5 | "Why couldn't the piano play? It had lost its ___-ination!" |
| 33% | SOLAR | 5 | Using the sun's energy |
| 33% | IMAGINE | 7 | Use the mind's eye |
| 33% | IMAGINES | 8 | Uses the mind's eye |
| 33% | LISZT | 5 | Composer of the piano piece played by Bugs Bunny in "Rhapsody Rabbit" |
| 33% | HEADBAND | 8 | Use a soft one to keep hair off the face |
| 32% | SPOONS | 6 | Music made using cutlery, aka playing the bones |
| 32% | ALAMODOME | 9 | Where the San Antonio Spurs used to play |
| 32% | WII | 3 | Video game console that used the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 32% | COBO | 4 | With 16-Across, where the Pistons used to play |
| 32% | SHEA | 4 | Stadium where the Jets and Mets used to play |
| 32% | BYEAR | 5 | How some play the piano |
| 32% | DAMPER | 6 | Piano's sustaining pedal |
| 31% | DOMINO | 6 | One knocks over the rest; tile used to play games |
| 31% | AFL | 3 | Org. the Raiders used to play for, up to 1960 |
| 31% | AFL | 3 | Org. the Broncos used to play for, prior to 1970 |
| 31% | ONEOCAT | 7 | You know how we used to play the baseball variant ___? ...
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| 31% | BOOGIE | 6 | Style of blues played on the piano, __ woogie |
| 31% | LISZT | 5 | Composer of the piano piece played in the "Tom and Jerry" short "The Cat Concerto" |
| 31% | KEYS | 4 | Alicia who plays the piano, fittingly |
| 31% | EAR | 3 | "I used to play piano by ___. Now I use my hands!" |
| 31% | SPA | 3 | Establishment that may play soft New Age music in the background |