| 100% | MARIAVONTRAPP | 13 | 14-Across's role in "The Sound of Music": 3 wds. |
| 69% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | "The Sound of Music" actress who won an Oscar for playing the title role in 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 62% | MARIA | 5 | Julie Andrews's role in "The Sound of Music" |
| 61% | MARIAVONTRAPP | 13 | "The Sound of Music" role that earned Mary Martin a Best Actress Tony for playing the governess and stepmother to seven children: 3 wds. |
| 59% | FREDCDOBBS | 10 | Humphrey Bogart's role in 1948's "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre": 3 wds. |
| 58% | MARIA | 5 | Julie Andrews role in "The Sound of Music" |
| 56% | RONKOVIC | 8 | 54-Across's role in "Born on the Fourth of July": 2 wds. |
| 56% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | "The Sound of Music" actress who played the nanny Mary Poppins in the 1964 film: 2 wds. |
| 55% | QUEENLILLIAN | 12 | 14-Across's voice role in the "Shrek" films: 2 wds. |
| 55% | ALPS | 4 | High points in The Sound of Music |
| 54% | MARIA | 5 | Role in “The Sound of Music” or “West Side Story” |
| 54% | SUPERIOR | 8 | Maria worried Mother __ in The Sound of Music |
| 54% | MARIAVONTRAPP | 13 | "The Sound of Music" heroine, with an unusual "moving" birthplace: 3 wds. |
| 53% | PTBARNUM | 8 | Hugh Jackman's role in the biopic "The Greatest Showman": 3 wds. |
| 53% | GOATHERD | 8 | Caprine-minder who is lonely in The Sound of Music |
| 53% | MARTA | 5 | Sixth Von Trapp child in the Sound of Music film |
| 53% | GOATHERD | 8 | This hill dweller was lonely in the Sound of Music |
| 52% | VONTRAPP | 8 | The captain's family singers in The Sound of Music |
| 52% | MARIA | 5 | Role for Julie Andrews in "The Sound of Music" |
| 50% | THEXFACTOR | 10 | Singer Demi Lovato was a judge in the second and third season of this music-based reality show: 3 wds. |
| 49% | LONELY | 6 | Describes the goatherd in The Sound of Music |
| 49% | GOVERNESS | 9 | Job of Maria in The Sound of Music |
| 49% | ROLF | 4 | Liesl's love in "The Sound of Music" |
| 49% | TIMOTHYHUTTON | 13 | "Ordinary People" actor who plays two roles in the 1993 film adaptation of 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 48% | MARIAVONTRAPP | 13 | "The Sound of Music" role |
| 48% | LIESL | 5 | "The Sound of Music" role |
| 48% | MARIA | 5 | "The Sound of Music" role |
| 48% | HARLANHOWARD | 12 | Songwriter in the Nashville Songwriters, Country Music, and Songwriters Halls of Fame who wrote the songs on 40-Across's 2023 album (2 wds.) |
| 48% | NONNBERG | 8 | Abbey of novice Maria in The Sound of Music |
| 48% | JOEJACKSON | 10 | Ray Liotta's role in "Field of Dreams," or the father of the King of Pop: 2 wds. |