| Music genre that started in D.C. in the mid-1980s | 49 |
| Music genre of I Am Ghost | 25 |
| Music genre derived from punk rock | 34 |
| Mopey, like some rock music | 27 |
| Mopey, in slang | 15 |
| Mopey genre | 11 |
| Melodramatic, in slang | 22 |
| Lovelorn and whiny, in slang | 28 |
| Like some dyed-black hairstyles | 31 |
| Like one wearing guyliner | 25 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone | 61 |
| Like a super wussy punk rock kid | 32 |
| Like a boy wearing a studded belt and horn-rimmed glasses | 57 |
| Kooky comic Phillips | 20 |
| Kooky comic Philips | 19 |
| Jimmy Eat World's music style | 33 |
| Jimmy Eat World's music genre | 33 |
| Jimmy Eat World's genre | 27 |
| Jawbreaker's music | 22 |
| Jawbreaker's genre | 22 |
| Jawbreaker rock genre | 21 |
| Insufferable, lovelorn and whiny, in slang | 42 |
| Indie rock offshoot | 19 |
| Indie music genre | 17 |
| Hardcore punk offshoot | 22 |
| Hardcore offshoot | 17 |
| Guitar-driven alt-rock | 22 |
| Goth kin | 8 |
| Genre with androgynous outfits | 30 |
| Genre whose band name generator offers results like "Some Kind of Bleeding Feeling" | 93 |
| Genre that grew from hardcore punk | 34 |
| Genre that developed from hard-core punk | 40 |
| Genre started by Rites of Spring | 32 |
| Genre of the Get Up Kids | 24 |
| Genre of the band Fall Out Boy | 30 |
| Genre of the 1997 album "Nothing Feels Good" | 54 |
| Genre of rock's Fall Out Boy | 32 |
| Genre of My Chemical Romance | 28 |
| Genre of Fall Out Boy | 21 |
| Genre for Panic! at the Disco and other bands with long names | 61 |
| Genre for Fall Out Boy | 22 |
| Genre disavowed by most bands said to be in it | 46 |
| Genre associated with complicated haircuts | 42 |
| Genre associated with absurdly long band names | 46 |
| Further Seems Forever genre | 27 |
| Funny-voiced entertainer Philips | 32 |
| Funny Phillips | 14 |
| Fugazi-spawned genre | 20 |
| Food for thought provider? | 26 |
| First name in screwball comedy | 30 |
| Fashion style sold at Hot Topic | 31 |
| Fashion category with a lot of black | 36 |
| Falsetto-voiced comedian Philips | 32 |
| Fall Out Boy's music genre | 30 |
| Expressive rock music subgenre | 30 |
| Expressive offshoot of punk rock | 32 |
| Expressive music subgenre | 25 |
| Evocative music genre | 21 |
| English comic Phillips | 22 |
| Emergency response org. | 23 |
| Effusive musical genre | 22 |
| Dashboard Confessional's music | 34 |
| Dashboard Confessional's genre | 34 |
| Dashboard Confessional genre | 28 |
| Dark-haired fashion style | 25 |
| Confessional rock genre | 23 |
| Comical Philips | 15 |
| Comedic Philips | 15 |
| Comedian Philips once called "a one-man asylum" | 57 |
| Civil defence grp. | 18 |
| Broody music genre | 18 |
| Brooding, as some pop music | 27 |
| Arty outgrowth of hardcore punk | 31 |
| Angsty music genre | 18 |
| Angsty genre | 12 |
| Alternative to grunge | 21 |
| Alternative style to goth | 25 |
| Adjective for some contemporary high school haircuts | 52 |
| 2001 comedy album | 17 |
| 1999 album by the punk band Screeching Weasel | 45 |
| "Weird Al" pal | 24 |
| "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps" comedian Philips | 111 |
| "People come up to me ... concerned ... that I'll reproduce" comedian Philips | 91 |
| "I loaned a friend of mine $8,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like" comic Philips | 122 |
| "I like to play chess with old men in the park. The tough part: finding 32 of them." comic Philips | 108 |
| "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing" comedian Philips | 104 |
| ___ pop (music genre) | 21 |
| ___ kid (angsty high-school type) | 33 |
| "The other day my nephew's computer beat me at chess. But it was no match for me at kickboxing" comedian | 118 |
| "How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand" quipper | 79 |
| Atlanta university | 18 |
| University in Atlanta | 21 |
| Atlanta campus | 14 |
| Atlanta school | 14 |
| Atlanta institution | 19 |
| Peach State campus | 18 |
| Where Jimmy Carter taught after his presidency | 46 |
| Peach State university | 22 |