| 100% | DACAPO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be repeated, in part or whole, from the beginning |
| 49% | AGITATO | 7 | Musical instruction that a piece be performed in an agitated manner |
| 49% | SCHERZANDO | 10 | Musical instruction that a piece be performed in a light-hearted manner |
| 44% | LENTO | 5 | Musical instruction that a piece be performed slowly |
| 44% | LEGATO | 6 | Musical instruction that a piece be performed smoothly and connectedly |
| 43% | PRESTISSIMO | 11 | Musical instruction that a piece be played as fast as possible |
| 36% | PISTACHIO | 9 | Nut from the cashew family that is enclosed in a shell |
| 36% | NUDE | 4 | Second single from Radiohead's album in 18a, that had a different title originally and was supposed to be part of the album "OK Computer" |
| 36% | ALLEGRETTO | 10 | Musical direction indicating that a piece be played fairly quickly or briskly |
| 35% | CONCERT | 7 | Musical event that may be held in a stadium or an arena |
| 35% | DACAPO | 6 | In music, instruction to repeat from the beginning |
| 34% | CODA | 4 | Led Zeppelin's final studio album, or the final part of a musical piece |
| 33% | ONEANDDONE | 10 | Never to be repeated ... or an apt pronouncement after following the instructions sequentially in 17-, 25-, 39- and 49-Across? |
| 33% | ETH | 3 | A letter in the Icelandic alphabet that can be described as a voiced or voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative |
| 33% | RUTH | 4 | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
| 33% | MATTERS | 7 | "All That ___," Christina Perri's 2015 song which was a part of the Broadway musical "Finding Neverland" |
| 33% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 32% | SLAG | 4 | Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive |
| 32% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 32% | ANGEL | 5 | ___ Falls, waterfall that is part of the Canaima National Park which is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Venezuela |
| 32% | ARM | 3 | Part of the body that is either the handle or the spout when doing the motions for "I'm a Little Teapot" |
| 32% | CAP | 3 | Surgical ___, headwear worn in the operating room to maintain sterilization that could be a part of your "Doctor" Halloween costume |
| 32% | PERIOD | 6 | __ piece, a drama that is set in the past |
| 32% | MIDDLECHILD | 11 | J. Cole single from the album "Revenge of the Dreamers III" that was nominated for a Best Rap Performance Grammy Award in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | SLUR | 4 | Symbol of a curved line in Western musical notation indicating that two or more notes are to be played without separation |
| 31% | LOSER | 5 | Beck song that begins "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" |
| 31% | ROOM | 4 | 2015 thriller movie about escaping captivity that was set largely in one location, a shed that the protagonists needed to escape from |
| 31% | RUBBER | 6 | The material that an eraser or a tire are made from |
| 31% | PSALM | 5 | A sacred song or poem that is present in the Bible |
| 31% | HEYCANIGETALIFT | 15 | Request from someone who needs a ride, or a request that can be made of the starts of 17-, 24-, and 43-Across |