| 100% | EPIC | 4 | "He made an ___ play and won us the game!" (something to be remembered) |
| 45% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,653 regular-season games with the Mariners, Yankees, and Marlins: 2 wds. |
| 45% | RAFAELPALMEIRO | 14 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,831 regular-season games with the Cubs, Rangers, and Orioles: 2 wds. |
| 44% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,671 regular-season games with the Mariners, Reds, and White Sox: 3 wds., abbr. |
| 41% | BJORNBORG | 9 | Player to whom tennis great Ilie Nastase was referring when he said "We're playing tennis, and he's playing something else" |
| 40% | SUSPICION | 9 | 1941 Hitchcock film that was the only one he directed to win an acting Oscar |
| 38% | ENDPLAY | 7 | Tactical play in the last few tricks of a game of bridge forcing an opponent to make a particular lead |
| 38% | BADMINTON | 9 | Sport played with a shuttlecock where players hit it back and forth in an attempt to make the other side miss |
| 37% | NIMOY | 5 | Actor astronaut Aldrin said was "a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all" |
| 37% | PATCHADAMS | 10 | Doctor who said of Robin Williams, "he was the only actor I wanted to play me, and I think he did a fabulous job." |
| 36% | BENKINGSLEY | 11 | Actor whose birthday it is today who won an Academy Award for playing Gandhi in the titular film and was knighted in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 36% | LENDL | 5 | He defeated Wilander to win the 1987 U.S. Open |
| 36% | ILIE | 4 | He beat Arthur to win the 1972 U.S. Open |
| 36% | GRAINY | 6 | An image that is unclear and hard to make out |
| 36% | POGO | 4 | He said "We have met the enemy and he is us" |
| 35% | POGO | 4 | "We have met the enemy and he is us" speaker |
| 35% | POGO | 4 | "We have met the enemy and he is us" toon |
| 35% | EVELYNASHFORD | 13 | The first track and field athlete to run 100 meters under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games and who has won a total of 5 Olympic medals: 2 wds. |
| 35% | JUNGLE | 6 | Welcome to the __, we've got fun and games |
| 35% | STEADY | 6 | Slow and this is supposed to win the race |
| 35% | TOTALECLIPSE | 12 | Event across the U.S. on 4/8/24 ... and, with 57-Across, 1983 Bonnie Tyler hit that would be apt to play during a 46-Across |
| 35% | HONDAACCORD | 11 | First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982) |
| 35% | JUDE | 4 | He was told to "take a sad song and make it better" |
| 35% | POGO | 4 | "We have met the enemy and he is us" comic strip |
| 35% | OPENACANOFWORMS | 15 | Attempt to fix something and inadvertently make the situation worse |
| 35% | WAR | 3 | Card game where the object is to win the whole deck |
| 35% | ALI | 3 | Mahershala who was the first Muslim performer to win an Oscar |
| 35% | ALI | 3 | Mahershala who was the first Muslim actor to win an Oscar |
| 34% | THESALESMAN | 11 | 2016 drama about a married couple performing in an Arthur Miller play that was the second Iranian film to win an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (2 wds.) |
| 34% | GAME | 4 | Something you play to win but may be lost if your luck is down |