| 100% | LAUGHING | 8 | The __ Gnome, musical oddity from David Bowie |
| 48% | ODDITY | 6 | David Bowie's "Space ___" that Canadian Chris Hadfield performed from the ISS in 2013 |
| 44% | FIVEYEARS | 9 | "Odd" song from David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" album (2 wds.) |
| 44% | GOLDEN | 6 | David Bowie's hit "___ Years" from the album that introduced his controversial performance persona of the "Thin White Duke" |
| 43% | CHANGES | 7 | Reinvention song from David Bowie |
| 42% | SPACE | 5 | David Bowie's "___ Oddity" |
| 41% | REALITY | 7 | David Bowie album from 2003 |
| 41% | CHAMELEON | 9 | David Bowie, the __ of rock |
| 39% | SOLD | 4 | David Bowie's "The Man Who ___ the World" |
| 39% | LETSDANCE | 9 | Hit title song from David Bowie's 1983 album: 2 wds. |
| 39% | TOEARTH | 7 | David Bowie sci-fi film, The Man Who Fell __ |
| 38% | OLDIE | 5 | Musical blast from the past |
| 38% | WICKED | 6 | Musical about the witches from Oz |
| 37% | STARMAN | 7 | David Bowie song whose title subject is "waiting in the sky" |
| 37% | GLAM | 4 | ___ rock (genre associated with David Bowie in the 1970s) |
| 37% | BASSCLEF | 8 | Musical symbol originating from the letter f |
| 37% | LETSDANCE | 9 | David Bowie hit with the lyric "Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight" |
| 36% | GLAM | 4 | Glittery rock genre associated with David Bowie in the 1970s |
| 36% | MULLETS | 7 | Rod Stewart and David Bowie rocked them in the '70s |
| 36% | THATJAZZ | 8 | All __, hit from the musical Chicago |
| 36% | FAME | 4 | David Bowie song where he sings "what you like is in the limo" |
| 36% | MAJOR | 5 | "Ground Control to ___ Tom" (lyric in David Bowie's "Space Oddity") |
| 36% | TESLA | 5 | Real-life scientist played by David Bowie in The Prestige (2006) |
| 36% | ORMSBYGORE | 10 | David —, British Ambassador to the US from 1961-65 |
| 36% | STEEL | 5 | David —, leader of the Liberal Party from 1976-88 |
| 36% | SPAMALOT | 8 | Musical adapted from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" |
| 35% | ELSES | 5 | "Someone ___ Story" (song from the musical "Chess") |
| 35% | AGE | 3 | "___ of Aquarius" (song from the musical "Hair") |
| 35% | GRAVITY | 7 | Defying __, hit song from the musical Wicked |
| 35% | BANGLES | 7 | Baubles, __ & Beads, song from the musical Kismet |