| 100% | JUAN | 4 | “Don ___” (Richard Strauss tone poem) |
| 94% | ALSO | 4 | — sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss tone poem |
| 91% | SPRACH | 6 | Richard Strauss' tone poem, Also __ Zarathustra |
| 90% | AHEROSLIFE | 10 | English name of 1898 Richard Strauss tone poem Ein Heldenleben |
| 50% | SALOME | 6 | Richard Strauss opera |
| 50% | ELEKTRA | 7 | Richard Strauss opera |
| 49% | EIN | 3 | Richard Strauss's "___ Heldenleben" |
| 49% | TASSO | 5 | Tone poem by Liszt |
| 46% | ELEKTRA | 7 | 1909 Richard Strauss opera |
| 45% | MUNICH | 6 | Birthplace of composer Richard Strauss |
| 45% | ELEKTRA | 7 | 1909 opera by Richard Strauss |
| 45% | HOLST | 5 | British contemporary of Richard Strauss |
| 44% | HEROD | 5 | Ruler in Richard Strauss's "Salome" |
| 43% | SIBELIUS | 8 | Jean __, Finnish composer of tone poem Finlandia |
| 42% | AMERICANINPARIS | 15 | Tone poem that calls for four taxi horns, with "An" |
| 38% | HECKELPHONE | 11 | Type of bass oboe used in 1905 Richard Strauss opera Salome |
| 38% | TONEPOEM | 8 | Strauss's Don Juan or Don Quixote, e.g. |
| 38% | KILEY | 5 | Richard who won a Tony for playing Don Quixote |
| 37% | INTERMEZZO | 10 | Two-act opera by Richard Strauss first performed in Dresden in 1924 |
| 36% | SUK | 3 | Josef —, Czech composer of symphony Asrael and tone poem A Summer's Tale |
| 36% | CARLSON | 7 | Author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff: Richard __ |
| 34% | SONGOFSUMMER | 12 | 1968 Ken Russell film about Frederick Delius, named for one of Delius’s tone poems |
| 34% | CORY | 4 | "Richard _____" (E.A. Robinson poem) |
| 33% | ONVIBRATE | 9 | Status that might appease people who don't like your tone? |
| 33% | RHYME | 5 | What most classic poems do that many modern poems don't |
| 33% | GRIFFES | 7 | Charles Tomlinson —, US composer whose works include 1912 tone poem The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan |
| 33% | TOD | 3 | "___ und Verklärung" (Richard Strauss opus) |
| 32% | STRAUSS | 7 | "Don Juan" composer Richard |
| 30% | MARX | 4 | "Don't Mean Nothing" singer Richard |
| 27% | TENOR | 5 | Tone |