| 100% | DACAPO | 6 | In music, instruction to repeat from the beginning |
| 59% | DACAPO | 6 | From the beginning, in music |
| 49% | CLEF | 4 | In music, a symbol normally placed at the beginning of a line of music to indicate the pitch |
| 49% | ABOVO | 5 | From the beginning, to Brutus |
| 49% | ABOVO | 5 | From the beginning, in Latin |
| 48% | PORTAMENTO | 10 | In music, a sliding movement from one note to another, especially in singing or playing the violin |
| 48% | DACAPO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be repeated, in part or whole, from the beginning |
| 48% | KARATE | 6 | Sport whose belt levels, from beginning to advanced, appear in the starred answers |
| 46% | DACAPO | 6 | From the start, in music |
| 46% | SEA | 3 | Word repeated in the lyric "From ___ to shining ___" |
| 44% | ONEANDDONE | 10 | Never to be repeated ... or an apt pronouncement after following the instructions sequentially in 17-, 25-, 39- and 49-Across? |
| 43% | PELOSI | 6 | House member from the Bay Area beginning in 1987 |
| 43% | NNE | 3 | Dir. from the Music City to the Motor City |
| 42% | DAYS | 4 | From nine to five, in the classifieds |
| 42% | RAP | 3 | Music genre added to the Grammys in 1989 |
| 42% | HEAD | 4 | The first blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 42% | TOE | 3 | The second blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 41% | OUTSET | 6 | From the ___ (to begin with) |
| 41% | STIRBUNNY | 9 | *Terse instruction to a rabbit to mix things up in the kitchen? |
| 41% | ALT | 3 | It means "different from the usual" in the names of music genres |
| 41% | LIN | 3 | Basketball star Jeremy traded from the Knicks to the Rockets in 2012 |
| 41% | ROOT | 4 | Repeated word in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 41% | SEND | 4 | "___ in the Clowns" (song from "A Little Night Music") |
| 40% | COAT | 4 | Gift from Jacob to Joseph, in the Bible |
| 40% | INDENT | 6 | Begin typing in from the margin |
| 40% | SWAY | 4 | Move from side to side along with the music |
| 40% | ERA | 3 | Rock ___ (period of music that began in the 1950s) |
| 40% | BROOD | 5 | Sit in the corner listening to emo music, maybe |
| 40% | GUNPOWDER | 9 | Brought from China to Europe in the 13th century |
| 40% | CHAFF | 5 | What to separate the wheat from, in a saying |