| 100% | LIMPBIZKIT | 10 | Band whose "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water" album went platinum in one week: 2 wds. |
| 46% | NORAHJONES | 10 | Singer whose "Feels Like Home" album went platinum in one week: 2 wds. |
| 43% | BRITNEYSPEARS | 13 | Singer whose "Oops! ... I Did It Again" album went platinum in one week: 2 wds. |
| 31% | PINKFLOYD | 9 | Rock band whose "The Dark Side of the Moon" album was released in 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 28% | KRISTENWIIG | 11 | "Bridesmaids" actress who voices Brenda, a hot dog bun, in the animated series "Sausage Party: Foodtopia": 2 wds. |
| 28% | FOOFIGHTERS | 11 | Dave Grohl's rock band whose 10th studio album, "Medicine at Midnight," features the hit singles 18-Across, 29-Across, and "Shame Shame" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | THEBEATLES | 10 | Band whose "White Album" and "Yellow Submarine" were Billboard's top two albums on March 1, 1969: 2 wds. |
| 27% | TOUR | 4 | What the bands in 16a, 33a, and 51a would go on after releasing an album |
| 26% | REOSPEEDWAGON | 13 | Band whose 1980 "Hi Infidelity" album includes the #1 song "Keep On Loving You" (2 wds.) |
| 26% | AUGUSTUSGLOOP | 13 | Child in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" who falls in a chocolate river: 2 wds. |
| 26% | BTS | 3 | Band whose songs "Savage Love" and "Dynamite" were simultaneously #1 and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100: Abbr. |
| 26% | ESTREET | 7 | Bruce Springsteen and the ___ Band: 2 wds. |
| 26% | MIKETEAVEE | 10 | Child in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" who is miniaturized in a broadcasting accident: 2 wds. |
| 26% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | ACDC | 4 | Band whose albums include "High Voltage" and "Back in Black" |
| 25% | LEDZEPPELIN | 11 | Rock band whose second studio album includes the Robert Plant/Jimmy Page song "Thank You" (2 wds.) |
| 25% | KINGSMEN | 8 | With “the,” band whose No. 2 hit “Louie Louie” was recorded in one take |
| 25% | BOBSEGER | 8 | ___ and the Silver Bullet Band ("Night Moves" band): 2 wds. |
| 25% | BOB | 3 | Go up and down in the water |
| 25% | BOBS | 4 | Goes up and down in the water |
| 25% | OTHER | 5 | Go in one ear and out the ___ |
| 25% | LOGON | 5 | Type in one's user ID and password: 2 wds. |
| 25% | AUGUSTWILSON | 12 | Playwright whose "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 and 1990: 2 wds. |
| 25% | BOB | 3 | Go up and down, as in the water |
| 25% | ETSEQ | 5 | And the following, in footnotes: 2 wds. |
| 25% | KANYEWEST | 9 | Rapper whose album "Graduation" and song "Stronger" both topped the charts in 2007: 2 wds. |
| 25% | KENDRICKLAMAR | 13 | Rapper whose album "Damn" and song "Humble" both topped the charts in 2017: 2 wds. |
| 25% | BOBDYLAN | 8 | "Blowin' in the Wind" singer whose image appears on the cover of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album: 2 wds. |
| 24% | SPICEGIRLS | 10 | "Wannabe" band whose members included 17- and 31-Across: 2 wds. |
| 24% | DANIELKALUUYA | 13 | "Judas and the Black Messiah" actor starring in "Nope": 2 wds. |