| 100% | PSYCHEDELIC | 11 | Style of music that emerged in the 60s which has sub-genres like trance music |
| 58% | ALTERNATIVE | 11 | ___ rock, style of music that was popularized in the 90s and has sub-genres like emo and post-grunge |
| 36% | COUNTRYBLUES | 12 | Acoustic folk style of music in which the singer is accompanied by an acoustic guitar: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MOZART | 6 | "The culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music," per Tchaikovsky |
| 36% | ROCKMUSIC | 9 | Style of songs that started in the US in the 1940s |
| 36% | ERA | 3 | Rock ___ (period of music that began in the 1950s) |
| 35% | ART | 3 | ___ Deco, glamorous style of decor that flourished in the 1920s-30s |
| 34% | DAY | 3 | Green ___, rock band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" |
| 34% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that originated in the eighties |
| 34% | DOWN | 4 | System of a ___, Armenian-American heavy metal band that was formed in California which had the hit song "Hypnotize" |
| 33% | RAP | 3 | The genre of music that Tupac Shakur belongs to |
| 33% | HIPHOP | 6 | Music genre for Tupac Shakur that's also known as disco rap, which originated in the Bronx in the mid-1980s: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SKA | 3 | Music genre that "Sir Coxsone" Dodd was instrumental in launching in the '50s and '60s |
| 32% | EMO | 3 | Rock music genre that originated in the mid-1980s |
| 32% | LONDON | 6 | "___ Calling," song by British punk rock band the Clash which has the name of a city in its title that is known for the clock tower"Big Ben" |
| 32% | GALWAY | 6 | "___ Girl," song by English singer Ed Sheeran which has the name of an Irish city in its title that is home to Eyre Square |
| 32% | OPERA | 5 | Music style that originated in Italy in the 1500s |
| 32% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that took off in the early 2000s |
| 32% | SKA | 3 | Music genre that originated in Jamaica (anagram of "ask") |
| 32% | CLASSIC | 7 | Like rock music that stands the test of time |
| 32% | HAWAII | 6 | "Blue ___," hit song that was used in Elvis Presley's titular movie which has the name of Barack Obama's birth state in its title |
| 31% | EMO | 3 | Music genre that faded in popularity in the early 2010s |
| 31% | DISCO | 5 | Music genre that was most popular in the late 1970s |
| 31% | ALPS | 4 | The hills that are alive in "The Sound of Music" |
| 31% | FLOCK | 5 | Gathering of 1-Down, like that found in the center of this puzzle |
| 31% | RAG | 3 | Piece of music in the syncopated style of ragtime |
| 31% | EMORAP | 6 | Fusion genre that emerged from SoundCloud in the twenty-tens |
| 31% | BUNDT | 5 | Type of cake that has a hole in the middle |
| 31% | DILATOR | 7 | Muscle that opens, like in the pupil of an eye |
| 30% | COUNTRY | 7 | Music genre for Carrie Underwood, which originated in Bristol, Tennessee, in the 1920s |