| 100% | SONES | 5 | Sounds in the area of 256 of these, will cause hearing damage |
| 48% | GOATHERD | 8 | This hill dweller was lonely in the Sound of Music |
| 43% | OORTCLOUD | 9 | The "Whipple Mission", proposed in 2014, would have investigated this distant theorized area of the sun's neighborhood |
| 42% | MACH | 4 | The X-15 generates this number in the area of 6 |
| 42% | BUSYSIGNAL | 10 | Rarely heard sound in the age of call-waiting |
| 41% | BEHOLDER | 8 | Beauty is in the eye of this |
| 41% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 41% | LEFT | 4 | The translation of this English word is "sinister" in Latin |
| 41% | BEHOLDER | 8 | Beauty is in the eye of this person |
| 40% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 40% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 40% | ZEBRA | 5 | Type of mussel that was partly the cause of water shortages in the Dallas area due to pipelines having to be shut down |
| 40% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | The odds of being dealt this in poker are 693 to 1 |
| 40% | EGG | 3 | This can be over 3 lb in the case of an ostrich |
| 40% | PIZZA | 5 | The "Hawaiian" version of this food was invented in Canada |
| 40% | GOATHERD | 8 | Caprine-minder who is lonely in The Sound of Music |
| 40% | THEHILLS | 8 | These are alive with the sound of music |
| 40% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 39% | MIDDLE | 6 | The second child of three is in this position |
| 39% | THUNDER | 7 | In Norse mythology, Thor is the god of this |
| 39% | MOROCCO | 7 | The Roman site of Volubilis is in this country |
| 39% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 39% | BAUD | 4 | Modems rated at 9600 of these were super fast in the eighties |
| 39% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 39% | ARES | 4 | The Amazons were the daughter of this god, in myth |
| 39% | STRIKES | 7 | In baseball, three of these mean the batter is out |
| 39% | ALPS | 4 | The hills that are alive in "The Sound of Music" |
| 39% | PHONOLOGY | 9 | Speech sounds are the focus of this science |
| 39% | FAT | 3 | Buildup of this in the body causes obesity |
| 38% | HOUSES | 6 | There are 12 of these (domiciles) in the horoscope |