| Top 40 genre | 12 |
| Top 40 hit from the '40s, today | 35 |
| Top 40 hit, often | 17 |
| Top 40 items | 12 |
| Top 40 lineup | 13 |
| Top 40 listings | 15 |
| Top 40 lists | 12 |
| Top 40 music | 12 |
| Top 40 music world | 18 |
| Top 40 numbers | 14 |
| Top 40 song | 11 |
| Top 40 song list | 16 |
| Top 40 songs | 12 |
| Top 40 station's play list | 30 |
| Top 40 station's playlist | 29 |
| Top 40 tune | 11 |
| Top 40 tunes | 12 |
| Top 40 VIP | 10 |
| Top 40's 40 | 15 |
| Top 5 song by Sarah McLachlan | 29 |
| Top a cathedral | 15 |
| Top a torte | 11 |
| Top A.L. pitcher in 1926 | 24 |
| Top A.L. pitcher: 1926 | 22 |
| Top ace of the Great War | 24 |
| Top actors | 10 |
| Top ad spot: Abbr. | 18 |
| Top airman | 10 |
| Top and bottom of an Italian room? | 34 |
| Top and bottom round | 20 |
| Top and bottom, e.g. | 20 |
| Top and over, for two | 21 |
| Top arrangement? | 16 |
| Top at the beach | 16 |
| Top at the shore | 16 |
| Top athlete | 11 |
| Top athlete in many a sport: Abbr. | 34 |
| Top authority | 13 |
| Top awards at los Juegos OlÃmpicos | 37 |
| Top baccarat score | 18 |
| Top banana | 10 |
| Top banana at the office | 24 |
| Top banana of "Top Banana" | 36 |
| Top banana of sorts | 19 |
| Top banana, athletically | 24 |
| Top banana, stereotypically | 27 |
| Top bananas | 11 |
| Top base-stealer before Brock | 29 |
| Top baseball name since 1958 | 28 |
| Top berth | 9 |
| Top biz dogs | 12 |
| Top bond rating | 15 |
| Top boss | 8 |
| Top bowling score for Brutus | 28 |
| Top box-office film star: 1934 | 30 |
| Top box-office film star: 1943 | 30 |
| Top box-office film star: 1953 | 30 |
| Top box-office film star: 1965 | 30 |
| Top boxer | 9 |
| Top Boy Scout rank | 18 |
| Top brass | 9 |
| Top brass? | 10 |
| Top bridge player | 17 |
| Top bunk | 8 |
| Top butcher's title? | 24 |
| Top Cairene | 11 |
| Top candidates | 14 |
| Top card | 8 |
| Top card in a royal flush | 25 |
| Top card in the deck | 20 |
| Top cards | 9 |
| Top celeb | 9 |
| Top celebrity groupings | 23 |
| Top celebs | 10 |
| Top chef, to a gourmet | 22 |
| Top chess player | 16 |
| Top chess player: 1960–61 | 32 |
| Top Chinese Zhou | 16 |
| Top choice | 10 |
| Top choice, casually | 20 |
| Top choice, for short | 21 |
| Top choice, slangily | 20 |
| Top choice, so to speak | 23 |
| Top choices | 11 |
| Top choices, for short | 22 |
| Top class | 9 |
| Top clock number | 16 |
| Top club | 8 |
| Top colonel's reward | 24 |
| Top company in a group | 22 |
| Top competitors, often | 22 |
| Top contractor? | 15 |
| Top cop | 7 |
| Top corn-producing state | 24 |
| Top corporate exec. | 19 |
| Top corporate mgrs. | 19 |
| Top country album of mid-1988 | 29 |
| Top crew | 8 |
| Top Damascene | 13 |
| Top Democrat in the Senate | 26 |