| 100% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the ___" (classic poem about baseball) |
| 88% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the ___" (1888 poem about baseball) |
| 80% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the ___" (poem about a baseball player) |
| 72% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the ___" (1888 baseball poem by Ernest Thayer) |
| 68% | CASEY | 5 | Classic baseball poem “___ at the Bat” |
| 60% | ALLSTARS | 8 | Baseball players at the July classic |
| 58% | CASEYATTHE | 10 | & 11D Ernest Thayer poem about baseball subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 |
| 58% | CASEYATTHEBAT | 13 | Ernest L. Thayer poem about baseball with the line "there is no joy in Mudville" (4 wds.) |
| 58% | CASEY | 5 | "___ at the Bat" (classic poem) |
| 55% | STENGEL | 7 | Casey at the bat, once |
| 51% | ODEONAGRECIANN | 14 | Poem about the letter nu? |
| 51% | ILIAD | 5 | Poem about the Trojan War |
| 50% | TWAS | 4 | First word in a classic poem about 17-Across |
| 49% | ILIAD | 5 | Epic poem about the Trojan War |
| 48% | TINTERN | 7 | __ Abbey, Wordsworth's poem about the Borders |
| 48% | ILIAD | 5 | Homer's poem about the Trojan War |
| 47% | THAYER | 6 | Ernest —, US author of 1888 poem Casey at the Bat |
| 47% | ILIAD | 5 | Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War |
| 47% | ITOO | 4 | Langston Hughes poem about the hope for equality |
| 47% | TWOON | 5 | Runners at the corners, say, in baseball |
| 46% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the ___" |
| 46% | BAT | 3 | "Casey at the __" |
| 46% | HYPERION | 8 | Keats epic poem about the fall of the Titans |
| 46% | BEOWULF | 7 | Old English poem about the hero who slays Grendel |
| 46% | EPICCYCLE | 9 | Collection of ancient Greek poems about the Trojan War |
| 46% | ODES | 4 | Poems like "Thirty Lines About the 'Fro" |
| 45% | RENEEZELLWEGER | 14 | Actress with the classic line "You had me at hello" |
| 45% | AUBADE | 6 | Poem or song about lovers separating at dawn |
| 45% | SOUNDOF | 7 | Classic musical about the von Trapps, The __ Music |
| 45% | INRE | 4 | About, at the start of a memo |