| 100% | GANG | 4 | "The ___ That Couldn't Shoot Straight" (Jimmy Breslin novel) |
| 77% | SHOOT | 5 | "The Gang That Couldn't ___ Straight" (Jimmy Breslin novel) |
| 63% | BRESLIN | 7 | "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" novelist |
| 53% | BRESLIN | 7 | Best-selling author of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" |
| 41% | DUCKSOUTOFVIEW | 14 | Why the hunter couldn't shoot the mallards? |
| 40% | ONCE | 4 | , 12D & 20D The — , T H White tetralogy that features the novel The Sword in the Stone |
| 39% | DOPE | 4 | The straight ___ (facts that aren't sugarcoated) |
| 38% | DOPE | 4 | The straight ___ (facts that aren't sugar-coated) |
| 38% | CANNON | 6 | T-shirt ___, launcher that shoots team t-shirts into the crowd, and a popular break-time sight in most stadium sports |
| 37% | AIRBALL | 7 | Shot that misses the hoop |
| 36% | ACLOCKWORKORANGE | 16 | Novel that features the language Nadsat |
| 36% | CAMERACREW | 10 | Those who shoot for the stars? |
| 36% | AIR | 3 | Shot that completely misses the basket |
| 35% | DUNE | 4 | Novel that begins on the planet Caladan |
| 35% | AIRBALL | 7 | Shot that's completely off the mark |
| 35% | FAN | 3 | One that shoots the breeze? |
| 35% | POLES | 5 | Areas of the Earth that couldn't be farther apart |
| 34% | ACED | 4 | Made a serve that the opponent couldn't touch |
| 34% | LIGHTS | 6 | *"You Probably Couldn't See for the ___ but You Were Staring Straight At Me," song by Arctic Monkeys |
| 34% | MOBYDICK | 8 | Novel that opens with the line "Call me Ishmael" |
| 34% | EMMA | 4 | Austen novel that inspired the film "Clueless" |
| 34% | CLOSEUP | 7 | Camera shot that gets all the details |
| 34% | VNECK | 5 | Sweater type that exposes the T-shirt |
| 34% | FIDELIO | 7 | Opera that inspired the T-shirt slogan |
| 33% | TROUBLE | 7 | T word that the Music Man warns River City about |
| 33% | BRACELET | 8 | Slap __, straight band that curves on the wrist |
| 33% | OMOO | 4 | Melville novel that continues the story from "Typee" |
| 33% | EMMA | 4 | Jane Austen novel that inspired the film "Clueless" |
| 33% | REDDRAGON | 9 | 1981 novel that introduced the character Hannibal Lecter |
| 33% | SNOWCRASH | 9 | Sci-fi novel that coined the word metaverse |