| 100% | ATONAL | 6 | Like music written by a composer who couldn't find their keys? |
| 33% | INDIE | 5 | Like music artists who aren't signed to a label |
| 32% | LOSTANDPROFOUND | 15 | Like philosophers who can't find their way home? |
| 31% | ATONAL | 6 | Like music without a key |
| 30% | ROREM | 5 | Composer who won a Pulitzer for "Air Music" |
| 30% | COMPOSER | 8 | A person who writes music |
| 29% | DUR | 3 | Written in a major key, in music |
| 29% | CLASSICAL | 9 | Music by composers like Mozart and Bach |
| 28% | JEROME | 6 | Composer Kern who wrote the music for "Show Boat" |
| 28% | SMUDGY | 6 | Like words written in ink by a lefty, often |
| 28% | ROMANTIC | 8 | Like a candlelit dinner accompanied by soft music, say |
| 28% | EDGARGUEST | 10 | American poet who wrote “Only a Dad” and “It Couldn’t Be Done” |
| 28% | ELFMAN | 6 | Composer Danny who wrote the theme music for "The Simpsons" |
| 27% | SUSANNE | 7 | ___ Langer, who wrote "Philosophy in a New Key" |
| 27% | ROSSINI | 7 | Composer who said "Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music" |
| 27% | AWOL | 4 | Like a soldier who's nowhere to be found: Abbr. |
| 27% | PROSE | 5 | Writing by people who aren't well versed? |
| 26% | NINOROTA | 8 | Composer who shared a Best Music, Original Dramatic Score Oscar with Carmine Coppola for The Godfather, Part II |
| 26% | JAIME | 5 | Catalan composer ___ Nunó, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem |
| 26% | PEPUSCH | 7 | Johann Christoph —, composer who arranged the music for 1728’s The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay |
| 26% | OPUS | 4 | Work by a composer |
| 25% | PROP | 4 | ___ comic (comedian like Gallagher who handles a lot of objects in their act) |
| 25% | DESK | 4 | “Why is a raven like a writing ___?”(riddle posed by the Mad Hatter) |
| 25% | UNAWED | 6 | Like someone who couldn't care less |
| 25% | BERNIEWORRELL | 13 | Composer and founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic who wrote a concerto at age 8: 2 wds. |
| 25% | POE | 3 | Who wrote "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea ..." |
| 25% | IOU | 3 | Note written by a debtor |
| 25% | IOU | 3 | Note written by a borrower |