| 100% | TOSCANINI | 9 | Longtime music director of La Scala and the New York Philharmonic |
| 45% | MEHTA | 5 | 1980s director of the New York Philharmonic |
| 42% | TOSCANINI | 9 | Longtime music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
| 40% | JAAP | 4 | New York Philharmonic music director ___ van Zweden |
| 40% | OZAWA | 5 | Conductor Seiji ___, longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| 40% | SEIJIOZAWA | 10 | Longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who died in February, 2024 |
| 39% | DIMITRI | 7 | New York Philharmonic conductor for most of the fifties, ____ Mitropoulos |
| 38% | STAND | 5 | Platform that the New York Philharmonic's conductor might use to keep sheet music visible |
| 38% | ESA | 3 | ___-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1992-2009 |
| 38% | MEHTA | 5 | Zubin formerly of the New York Philharmonic |
| 38% | MUTI | 4 | Longtime La Scala music director |
| 37% | ASHKENAZY | 9 | Vladimir —, Russia-born Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1987-94 |
| 37% | ALLEN | 5 | Longtime "Voice of the New York Yankees" |
| 37% | ASTORS | 6 | Their wealth funds the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| 36% | FIGGIS | 6 | Mike —, director of the films Timecode and Leaving Las Vegas |
| 35% | STEVE | 5 | & 23A New York-born actor; director of films Animal Factory and Lonesome Jim |
| 34% | BETH | 4 | Top 10 Kiss hit with backing by the New York Philharmonic |
| 34% | LEONARD | 7 | Bernstein who conducted the New York Philharmonic |
| 34% | DONNBYRNE | 9 | Brian Oswald —, New York-born Irish author of novels Messer Marco Polo and The Wind Bloweth |
| 34% | MEHTA | 5 | Masur succeeded him at the New York Philharmonic |
| 34% | MEHTA | 5 | A Bernstein successor at the New York Philharmonic |
| 33% | GIANTS | 6 | New York baseball team that sent future Hall of Famers Bill Terry and Carl Hubbell to the first 28-Across |
| 33% | YANKEES | 7 | New York ___, MLB team and member of the AL East division that is the team with the most World Series titles |
| 32% | MEHTA | 5 | Longtime New York Philharmonic conductor |
| 32% | LADYBUNNY | 9 | Longtime New York night-life presence, and “arguably the city’s reigning drag queen,” per a 2018 Times piece |
| 32% | EAGLE | 5 | Creature on the New York coat of arms |
| 32% | MEHTA | 5 | Longtime New York Philharmonic conductor Zubin |
| 32% | SPIELBERG | 9 | Director of Jurassic Park and The Lost World |
| 32% | MUTI | 4 | La Scala music director beginning 1986 |