| 100% | RECORDER | 8 | Wind instrument of the flute family with a reedy tone quality |
| 46% | HARMONICA | 9 | Small wind instrument of the reed organ family also called a mouth organ |
| 39% | ALOU | 4 | Name of the baseball family with a combined 7,228 hits |
| 38% | OSMONDS | 7 | Musical family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 37% | SOPRANINO | 9 | Term for a musical instrument such as a recorder or saxophone with the highest pitch of all those in its family |
| 37% | PARSLEY | 7 | Mediterranean herb of the carrot family with a high vitamin C content |
| 37% | JACKDAW | 7 | Bird of the crow family with a silvery sheen to the back of its head |
| 37% | OCARINA | 7 | Wind instrument with a solo in the Troggs’s “Wild Thing” |
| 36% | RAVEN | 5 | Large bird of the crow family with a black plumage and wedge-shaped tail |
| 36% | THESIMPSONS | 11 | Springfield cartoon family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 36% | HOUSE | 5 | & 15A Bird of the swallow family with a white-and-bluish-black plumage |
| 36% | GRAYLING | 8 | Freshwater food fish of the salmon family with a long high dorsal fin |
| 36% | TIMBRE | 6 | The resonance or quality of tone of an instrument |
| 36% | PICCOLO | 7 | Woodwind instrument; smallest member of the flute family |
| 35% | GREENDRAGON | 11 | North American perennial plant of the arum family with a very long white spadix |
| 34% | PICCOLO | 7 | Smallest member of the flute family |
| 34% | VIOL | 4 | Any of a family of stringed instruments that preceded the violin |
| 34% | TUI | 3 | New Zealand bird of the honeyeater family with a bluish-green plumage and white tuft under the throat |
| 34% | NEE | 3 | Used with the name of a married woman to identify former family |
| 33% | SIKA | 4 | Mammal of the family Cervidae native to Japan, Russia and China with a short head and compact body |
| 33% | LIKABLE | 7 | Having the qualities of someone you might want to get a beer with, say |
| 33% | RESTHARROW | 10 | Plant of the pea family such as the common — with pink flowers and a tough woody stem |
| 33% | RESTHARROW | 10 | Plant of the pea family such as the common - with pink flowers and a tough woody stem |
| 32% | CRUCIFER | 8 | Any of various plants of the cabbage family with four petals arranged in a cross |
| 32% | HALEY | 5 | Author with a book subtitled "The Saga of an American Family" |
| 32% | TROMBONE | 8 | Wind instrument with a slide |
| 32% | FEATHERS | 8 | Lightweight bits of a bird's wing that might float and get carried away with the wind |
| 32% | OBOE | 4 | Wind instrument with a nasal sound |
| 32% | CELLO | 5 | Bass instrument of the violin family |