| 100% | OPERA | 5 | "___ in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian": H. L. Mencken |
| 33% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 32% | SINGLE | 6 | The hit in the baseball mantra "A walk is as good as a hit" |
| 31% | MARTINI | 7 | "The only American invention as perfect as a sonnet," per H. L. Mencken |
| 30% | SURPRISE | 8 | An event where the main person is kept in the dark about the party |
| 29% | SARK | 4 | Island in the English Channel whose two main parts are linked by isthmus La Coupee |
| 29% | SARK | 4 | Island in the English Channel whose two main parts are linked by the isthmus La Coupee |
| 28% | HOFF | 4 | Harry S —, English author whose 1934 debut novel Trina was published in the US as It Happened in PRK |
| 28% | ARTHUR | 6 | The Sword in the Stone is about King __ |
| 28% | HAM | 3 | West ___ United, English football team that is portrayed as AFC Richmond's fierce rival in the comedy series "Ted Lasso" |
| 28% | SIC | 3 | Just as in the original |
| 27% | OPA | 3 | Legislation that President George H. W. Bush signed in 1990 that was introduced for enactment just before the Exxon Valdez disaster |
| 27% | AEIOU | 5 | The five main vowels in English |
| 27% | RAF | 3 | The Italian Vallone, he was in the lesser Godfather: Part III |
| 27% | NOEL | 4 | ___ Gallagher, English musician who was in the band Oasis |
| 27% | MACAW | 5 | The main character in "Rio" is one |
| 27% | COVET | 5 | Be jealous of, as in the Bible |
| 27% | OUTRANK | 7 | Be superior to, as in the military |
| 26% | OPERAISMO | 9 | Italian political tendency known as “workerism” in English |
| 26% | EPISODEONE | 10 | The main characters are usually introduced in it |
| 26% | FLORENCE | 8 | The Uffizi gallery is in this Italian city |
| 26% | WAFT | 4 | Be carried in the air, as an aroma |
| 26% | SYNC | 4 | When something is in the same rhythm as another, for short |
| 26% | FIELDER | 7 | Baseball player in the side that is not batting |
| 26% | BIO | 3 | H.S. class in the same department as chem |
| 26% | NEWESTEGG | 9 | What was just laid in the henhouse? |
| 26% | DOH | 3 | "The Simpsons" exclamation that's been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001 |
| 26% | CHRISTY | 7 | Mathewson who was in the Baseball Hall of Fame's first class |
| 26% | ADES | 4 | H___ is in Greek mythology the god of the underworld |
| 26% | CHARACTER | 9 | Alice is the main __ in Alice in Wonderland |