| 100% | INLET | 5 | The Chesapeake Bay or Puget Sound |
| 62% | INLET | 5 | Oyster Bay or Puget Sound |
| 46% | USNA | 4 | Sch. on the Chesapeake Bay |
| 46% | SHAD | 4 | Swimmer in the Chesapeake Bay |
| 45% | POTOMACRIVER | 12 | It flows to the Chesapeake Bay |
| 43% | MARYLAND | 8 | Most of its counties border the Chesapeake Bay |
| 43% | BALTIMORE | 9 | *City whose harbor empties into the Chesapeake Bay |
| 42% | INLANDSEA | 9 | Hudson Bay or the Caspian |
| 41% | NEIGH | 5 | Sound by the bay |
| 40% | SUSQUEHANNA | 11 | US river flowing into the Chesapeake Bay upon which Harrisburg, Pennsylvania stands |
| 40% | NORAROBERTS | 11 | Romance novelist who wrote the Chesapeake Bay series, among many others: 2 wds. |
| 39% | NEIGH | 5 | Sound made by a roan or bay |
| 39% | BAA | 3 | The sound a lamb or sheep makes |
| 39% | ROAR | 4 | Sound from a crowd or the ocean |
| 39% | ROAR | 4 | Sound of a crowd or the ocean |
| 37% | BEEP | 4 | Sound made by a car horn or the Road Runner |
| 37% | PRONOUNCE | 9 | The correct way to say or sound out a word |
| 37% | SAIL | 4 | Go out on the sea or bay, say |
| 37% | MUTER | 5 | Someone or something that cuts off the sound |
| 37% | SOLONG | 6 | Goodbye or farewell, per The Sound of Music |
| 37% | OLYMPIA | 7 | State capital on the Puget Sound |
| 37% | CHIMES | 6 | Bell sounds, or the noise of ringing clocks |
| 36% | SCHWA | 5 | Either the first or last vowel sound in "Alaska" |
| 35% | VOL | 3 | Stereo knob that makes the sound louder or softer: Abbr. |
| 35% | MARIA | 5 | Protagonist of West Side Story or The Sound of Music |
| 35% | HORN | 4 | Sound heard at the end of a period during basketball or hockey games |
| 35% | WHITE | 5 | With 7-Across, the sound of rain or a whirring fan |
| 34% | COUNTERPOINT | 12 | Musical technique; the simultaneous sounding of two or more parts or melodies |
| 34% | MURMUR | 6 | Whisper or a low continuous sound the name of which repeats itself |
| 34% | OOHANDAAH | 9 | Gush (over) ... or sounds shared by the answer to each starred clue |