| 100% | ONEACT | 6 | Like the plays “Krapp’s Last Tape” and “No Exit” |
| 45% | TRAGIC | 6 | Like the play "Romeo and Juliet," say |
| 42% | AAA | 3 | Like the play that the New Orleans Baby Cakes enjoyed until last year |
| 41% | INDIE | 5 | Like the bands Japanese Breakfast and the Last Dinner Party |
| 41% | SARTRE | 6 | French author of the play No Exit, Jean-Paul __ |
| 40% | NICHOLSON | 9 | Jack __ was all work and no play in The Shining |
| 39% | JENNIFERLOPEZ | 13 | "On the Floor" singer whose name's first and last letters sound like "Jay-Z": 2 wds. |
| 38% | AWFUL | 5 | Like the shows "Here's Where I Belong" in '68 and "La Strada" in '69, both of which lasted one night on Broadway |
| 38% | TIDAL | 5 | Like the ocean's ebb and flow |
| 37% | PEAGREEN | 8 | Like the Owl and the Pussycat's boat |
| 37% | ALLFEMALE | 9 | Like the Supremes and the Go-Go's |
| 37% | ATWAR | 5 | Like the U.S. and Spain in 1898 |
| 37% | PITTED | 6 | Like the moon's landscape and many olives |
| 37% | ROMAN | 5 | Like the Circus Maximus and Trajan's Market |
| 37% | AGITATO | 7 | Like the last movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" |
| 37% | PEAGREEN | 8 | Like the Owl and the Pussy-Cat's boat |
| 37% | DOMED | 5 | Like the U.S. Capitol and the Taj Mahal |
| 36% | ARDEN | 5 | John —, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey |
| 36% | BECKETT | 7 | "Krapp's Last Tape" playwright |
| 36% | JEANPAULSARTRE | 14 | 20th-century writer of the French plays "No Exit" and "The Flies": 2 wds., hyph. |
| 36% | ORCHARD | 7 | Chekhov's last play: The Cherry __ |
| 36% | SAYONARA | 8 | Song played in the first and last episodes of "M*A*S*H" that's also called the "Japanese 32-Across Song" |
| 36% | THAD | 4 | Jazz trumpeter Jones who played in and later led the Count Basie Orchestra |
| 35% | MERCEDESBENZ | 12 | Car manufacturer with models like the S-Class, E-Class and GLC SUV, operating from Sandy Springs: Hyph. |
| 35% | TOIL | 4 | It's all work and no play |
| 35% | SILENT | 6 | Like the "s" in "aisle" and "island" |
| 35% | STEVE | 5 | "Sex and the City" and "And Just Like That... " character played by David Eigenberg |
| 35% | RECENT | 6 | Like the latest |
| 35% | MAGEE | 5 | Patrick —, Northern Irish actor for whom Samuel Beckett wrote the one-act play Krapp’s Last Tape |