| 100% | RHAPSODY | 8 | Musical piece by US composer Gershwin, __ in Blue |
| 38% | LISZT | 5 | Composer of the piano piece played by Bugs Bunny in "Rhapsody Rabbit" |
| 38% | RHAPSODY | 8 | George Gershwin piece, __ in Blue |
| 36% | HENRY | 5 | & 16D US composer of 1917 piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun who authored 1930 book New Musical Resources |
| 34% | CANONS | 6 | Musical pieces or decrees in law |
| 34% | GERSHWIN | 8 | "Rhapsody in Blue" composer |
| 34% | RHAPSODY | 8 | __ in Blue, Gershwin classical-jazz composition |
| 33% | GERSHWIN | 8 | George __, Rhapsody in Blue composer |
| 33% | GEORGE | 6 | ___ Gershwin, "Rhapsody in Blue" composer who was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation |
| 32% | JOHNKELLY | 9 | Detective played by David Caruso in NYPD Blue |
| 31% | ZOOTSUIT | 8 | Jazz outfit worn by US men in 1930s, 1940s |
| 31% | RIDGE | 5 | Blue ___ Mountains (range in the eastern US) |
| 31% | RIDGE | 5 | Blue ___ Parkway (road in the eastern US) |
| 31% | OHLADYBEGOOD | 12 | Gershwin song in a 1924 Astaire musical |
| 31% | LYRE | 4 | Musical instrument created by Hermes, in myth |
| 31% | OPUSES | 6 | Works by a musical composer |
| 31% | BENEKING | 8 | US singer and composer of Stand by Me |
| 30% | UTAH | 4 | US state settled by religious pioneers in 1847 |
| 30% | ESSAY | 5 | Piece of writing in a blue book exam |
| 30% | HAMLISCH | 8 | Marvin —, US composer of Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line |
| 30% | WATERMUSIC | 10 | Collection of pieces by George Frideric Handel that premiered in 1717 |
| 30% | DEM | 3 | US political affiliation represented by the color blue: Abbr. |
| 30% | HAMILTON | 8 | US Founding Father who died in 1804; 2015 musical |
| 30% | MASTERS | 7 | US golf contest won in 1969 by George Archer |
| 30% | HOWLINWOLF | 10 | US blues musician born Chester Arthur Burnett in 1910 |
| 30% | DORY | 4 | Blue fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in "Finding Nemo" |
| 30% | SADNESS | 7 | Blue emotion voiced by Phyllis Smith in "Inside Out" |
| 30% | LYMESWOLD | 9 | Blue creamy cheese launched in 1982 by Dairy Crest |
| 30% | ATECAKE | 7 | Did as suggested in a Gershwin musical? |