| 100% | MOZART | 6 | Composer who wrote "The Magic Flute" |
| 70% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer who wrote the "William Tell Overture" |
| 70% | NEDROREM | 8 | Composer who wrote the book "The Paris Diaries" |
| 70% | MOZART | 6 | Composer who wrote the Prague Symphony in 1786 |
| 69% | MOZART | 6 | The Magic Flute composer |
| 69% | BACH | 4 | Classical composer who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos |
| 68% | IRVINGBERLIN | 12 | Composer who wrote the songs for 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 67% | RAVEL | 5 | French composer who wrote the ballet Daphnis et Chloé |
| 64% | QUINCYJONES | 11 | Composer who wrote "The Streetbeater," the theme song for 29-Across (2 wds.) |
| 63% | MOZART | 6 | Composer who wrote his first concerto at the age of five |
| 61% | YARROW | 6 | Peter who wrote "Puff the Magic Dragon" |
| 61% | MOZART | 6 | Composer of The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni |
| 60% | JEROME | 6 | Composer Kern who wrote the music for "Show Boat" |
| 59% | BARTOK | 6 | Hungarian composer who wrote "The Miraculous Mandarin" |
| 59% | MOZART | 6 | "The Magic Flute" composer |
| 59% | WOLFGANGAMADEUSMOZART | 21 | “The Magic Flute” composer |
| 59% | ELFMAN | 6 | Composer Danny who wrote the theme music for "The Simpsons" |
| 58% | MOZART | 6 | "The Magic Flute" composer Wolfgang |
| 57% | MANN | 4 | Thomas who wrote "The Magic Mountain" |
| 57% | ELKIN | 5 | Stanley who wrote "The Magic Kingdom" |
| 56% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer Stephen, who wrote Send in the Clowns |
| 55% | STEINER | 7 | Composer Max, who wrote Gone With The Wind score |
| 54% | SONDHEIM | 8 | Composer who wrote, about crosswords, "A good clue can give you all the pleasures of being duped that a mystery story can" |
| 54% | AESOP | 5 | Enslaved Greek who wrote "The Fisherman and His Flute" |
| 54% | OPERA | 5 | The Magic Flute, for one |
| 53% | BRIAN | 5 | ___ Tyler, composer who wrote original music for the 2010 action film "The Expendables" and also composed music for "Now You See Me" |
| 52% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who wrote the "Republic" |
| 52% | BOCCACCIO | 9 | Italian who wrote The Decameron |
| 52% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 52% | LOIS | 4 | Lowry who wrote The Giver |