| 100% | HISS | 4 | Sound neither an actor nor a hiker wants to hear |
| 38% | SSS | 3 | Sound a biker doesn't want to hear |
| 34% | TMI | 3 | "No one wants to hear that," in a group text |
| 34% | ICOULDBEMISTAKEN | 16 | Last thing you want to hear from an ICBM expert? |
| 34% | PEEP | 4 | "I don't want to hear a ___ out of you" |
| 34% | PEEP | 4 | "I don't want to hear a ___ out of you!" |
| 34% | CLEAR | 5 | "___ skies today!" (words you want to hear from a weatherman) |
| 33% | MUFFLED | 7 | Hard to hear accurately, an obscured sound |
| 33% | CUE | 3 | Line that an actor waits to hear |
| 33% | TMI | 3 | "Eww, I don't want to hear about it," in a text |
| 32% | AUDITION | 8 | An actor goes to one to try to get a role |
| 32% | LINES | 5 | What an actor has to memorize for a role |
| 32% | ENTER | 5 | Stage direction for an actor to join a scene |
| 32% | PSST | 4 | "Want to hear a secret?" |
| 32% | PSST | 4 | ''Want to hear a secret?'' |
| 31% | SAFE | 4 | Shout from an umpire that a baserunner hopes to hear |
| 31% | MISCAST | 7 | Give an unsuitable role to a particular actor |
| 30% | BREAKEVEN | 9 | Neither lose nor gain... and a hint to four long answers |
| 30% | FIZZ | 4 | Sound heard after a plop, in an old Alka-Seltzer commercial |
| 30% | GRR | 3 | Sound you don't want to hear while camping |
| 30% | ROYALTY | 7 | Regal sounding term for a payment to an author |
| 30% | ALARM | 5 | Dreaded sound to hear during a good dream |
| 30% | SPLAT | 5 | Bad sound to hear by a kitchen counter |
| 30% | TOOTSIE | 7 | 1982 Jessica Lange film about an actor who adopts a female identity to get work |
| 29% | SHTAKE | 6 | An investor might want to get a fair one |
| 29% | EAR | 3 | An organ you use to hear sounds |
| 29% | TROPICTHUNDER | 13 | 2008 comedy starring Jack Black as an actor forced to survive in a jungle: 2 wds. |
| 29% | GONG | 4 | Signal a performer doesn't want to hear |
| 29% | ICALL | 5 | Answer a bluffer doesn't want to hear |
| 29% | REGISPHILBIN | 12 | Original "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" host who was an NBC page in 1955: 2 wds. |