| 100% | COACHELLA | 9 | Music and Arts Festival recently reschedled to October due to urging from local health authorities |
| 28% | BONNAROO | 8 | Tennessee music and arts festival |
| 27% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Famous 1969 US music and art festival |
| 26% | SXSW | 4 | Annual music and arts festival in Austin, Texas, familiarly |
| 25% | COACHELLA | 9 | Annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in California |
| 22% | EGRET | 5 | Bird that became endangered in the 19th and early 20th century due to demands from hat makers |
| 21% | FOLK | 4 | Music and art genre |
| 20% | ONO | 3 | Yoko of music and art |
| 20% | SXSW | 4 | Annual Austin music and film festival |
| 20% | ILL | 3 | Unable to work due to health, perhaps |
| 20% | SXSW | 4 | Austin-based music and film festival, informally |
| 19% | HARVEST | 7 | The National Apple ___ Festival, a fall season event held during the first two weekends of October, celebrating food, music and crafts |
| 19% | USAIR | 5 | Carrier that operated the hourly shuttle from Logan to LaGuardia and Ronald Reagan up until October 2015 |
| 19% | SAUDIGAZELLE | 12 | Antelope species from the Arabian peninsula which went extinct due to excessive hunting and was officially declared extinct in 2008: 2 wds. |
| 19% | RENAISSANCE | 11 | Art movement that originated in Europe between 14th and 17th century marking the transition from the middle ages to modernity |
| 19% | SXSW | 4 | Annual music and film festival founded in 1987, briefly |
| 19% | DIADELOSMUERTOS | 15 | Festival observed every October 31 to November 2 |
| 19% | FEARFUL | 7 | To be wary and timid due to dread |
| 19% | EISTEDDFOD | 10 | Welsh music, poetry and drama festival |
| 19% | BEDRIDDEN | 9 | Incapacitated, immobile due to poor health |
| 19% | NEILDIAMOND | 11 | "Song Sung Blue" singer who will no longer tour due to Parkinson's disease, but still plans to write and record music: 2 wds. |
| 18% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Iconic August 1969 music festival, four of whose performers appear in the answers to 17-, 36-, 46- and 55-Across |
| 18% | KAGURA | 6 | Japanese music and dance at Shinto festivals |
| 18% | PDT | 3 | California time zone from April to October |
| 18% | RETIRE | 6 | Withdraw from work due to age limit |
| 18% | PSALMODY | 8 | The art of putting hymns to music |
| 18% | TEAR | 4 | Wear and ___ (damage due to everyday use) |
| 18% | ETRUSCAN | 8 | Language, people and art from ancient Etruria |
| 18% | OBOE | 4 | Reed used to make music and crosswords |
| 18% | SOCA | 4 | Music from Trinidad and Tobago |