| 100% | PHONOLOGY | 9 | Speech sounds are the focus of this science |
| 57% | BOLLYWOOD | 9 | Mumbai is the focus of this Indian film industry |
| 57% | SEINFELD | 8 | Jerry was the focus of this funny show's foursome |
| 49% | THEHILLS | 8 | These are alive with the sound of music |
| 48% | 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 |
| 45% | EWINGOIL | 8 | Company that was the focus of "Dallas": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ODES | 4 | Beauty and a nightingale were the focus of two |
| 44% | CHIMPANZEES | 11 | Animals that are the focus of 39-Across's work |
| 44% | ALAMO | 5 | Texas mission that was the focus of an 1836 battle |
| 44% | LISA | 4 | Vanderpump whose Hollywood restaurant is the focus of Vanderpump Rules |
| 43% | DAYLIGHT | 8 | Eosophobia is the fear of this |
| 43% | MOISTURE | 8 | Hygrophobia is the fear of this |
| 43% | KNOWLEDGE | 9 | Gnosiophobia is the fear of this |
| 43% | INVENTION | 9 | Necessity is the mother of this |
| 43% | HEIGHTS | 7 | Acrophobia is the fear of this |
| 43% | INSECTS | 7 | Entomology is the study of this |
| 43% | GRAVITY | 7 | Barophobia is the fear of this |
| 43% | POLLEN | 6 | Palynology is the study of this |
| 43% | ODORS | 5 | Osmics is the study of these |
| 43% | CHURCHES | 8 | Ecclesiophobia is the fear of these |
| 43% | BALLOONS | 8 | Globophobia is the fear of these |
| 42% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 42% | PAKISTAN | 8 | Islamabad is the capital of this country |
| 42% | NAUTILUS | 8 | Nemo is the Captain of this submarine |
| 42% | MAN | 3 | Adam was the first of this kind |
| 42% | UGANDA | 6 | Kampala is the capital of this country |
| 42% | PORTUGAL | 8 | Lisbon is the capital of this country |
| 42% | DENMARK | 7 | Copenhagen is the capital of this country |
| 42% | GREECE | 6 | Athens is the capital of this country |