| 100% | ATOY | 4 | "That is not ___!" ("Don't play with that!") |
| 82% | ATOY | 4 | "That's not ___!" ("Don't play with that!") (2 wds.) |
| 77% | ATOY | 4 | "Put that down, it's not ___!" ("Don't play with that!"): 2 wds. |
| 62% | LONGLINE | 8 | Describes T-shirts that are not short |
| 60% | POLO | 4 | Sport that players are not allowed to play left-handed |
| 58% | GAMES | 5 | Don't play ___ with me |
| 58% | TREEHOUSE | 9 | Play space that might be accessed with a rope ladder |
| 58% | SAXOPHONE | 9 | Instrument that must be played with the mouth |
| 58% | SNARE | 5 | Drum that can be played with a brush |
| 58% | SITAR | 5 | Instrument that may be played with a mizrab |
| 58% | NIM | 3 | Strategy game that can be played with matchsticks |
| 58% | LIMBO | 5 | Game that might be played with a stick |
| 57% | SANITY | 6 | Marbles you don't play with |
| 57% | BORON | 5 | Element with a low atomic number that is not found naturally on Earth |
| 57% | HARDCOURT | 9 | Tennis playing surface that is not grass or clay |
| 56% | OHIO | 4 | Columbus's state with the only U.S. state flag that is not rectangular |
| 56% | BRUNCH | 6 | Meal with mimosas that is "not quite breakfast and not quite lunch" |
| 56% | JANE | 4 | With 2-Down, book that includes the line "Conventionality is not morality" |
| 56% | ISPY | 4 | Game that can be played with whatever’s lying around |
| 56% | SNAREDRUM | 9 | Percussion instrument that may be played with sticks or brushes |
| 56% | HELPME | 6 | With 32-Across, 1965 Beach Boys hit that was not based on a specific woman: 2 wds. |
| 55% | SKAT | 4 | Activity in which people are not playing with a full deck |
| 55% | ALTO | 4 | ___ saxophone, woodwind instrument that is played with a single-reed mouthpiece |
| 55% | MANCALA | 7 | Board game that can be played with cowry shells or stones |
| 54% | SLAMBALL | 8 | Sport which is a variant of basketball that's played with trampolines |
| 54% | MEIR | 4 | Golda who said, “Don’t be so humble; you are not that great” |
| 54% | SCRATCHCARD | 11 | Ticket that might be purchased with a bill and played with a coin |
| 54% | RAMS | 4 | Los Angeles ___, team that was merged entirely with Los Angeles Dons in 1949 |
| 54% | HAMLET | 6 | Play that poses the question "To be or not to be?" |
| 54% | MEIR | 4 | She said "Don't be humble. You're not that great" |