| 100% | FRUIT | 5 | They're "chopped up" to make the anagrams at 2- and 5-Down |
| 97% | RULES | 5 | They're "made to be broken" |
| 96% | RULE | 4 | Be the best, so to speak |
| 93% | BALL | 4 | Why is Cinderella so bad at soccer? "Because she's always running away from the ___!" |
| 92% | MOZZARELLASTUCK | 15 | Why the pizza oven is so hard to clean? |
| 91% | PEDESTALS | 9 | The great & good are placed on them, to be revered |
| 90% | RAMPS | 5 | The ADA requires them to be at least 36 inches wide |
| 90% | TETRIS | 6 | Its players never want to be at the top |
| 90% | EGOS | 4 | They might need to be checked at the door |
| 90% | ASLEEP | 6 | Not a good thing to be at the wheel |
| 89% | CAMP | 4 | Something to make at night and break in the morning |
| 89% | EGOS | 4 | People might be asked to check them at the door |
| 89% | JONG | 4 | Author whose best-known work begins "There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them" |
| 89% | PINATAS | 7 | They're made to be destroyed |
| 89% | ABODES | 6 | They're the places to be! |
| 88% | JUMP | 4 | "Why are all frogs good at basketball? Because they make a lot of ___ shots" |
| 88% | BARS | 4 | They're not good to be behind |
| 87% | TAMERS | 6 | They're good at breaking things |
| 87% | FISHER | 6 | Mike ___, Canadian-American former ice hockey player who is married to the American singer, Carrie Underwood |
| 87% | KARATE | 6 | Japanese discipline that was to make its debut at the 2020 Olympics |
| 87% | SOCIALMISFIT | 12 | One not very good at making friends, perhaps |
| 86% | ROADHOGS | 8 | They're likely to be honked at |
| 85% | EARS | 4 | They're all the better to hear you with |
| 85% | PALEPALSPASSLASSLESS | 20 | Friends who have never been to the beach don't walk by the girl so often |
| 85% | SKATEBOARDING | 13 | "Wheelie" and "ollie" activity that was to make its debut at the 2020 Olympics |
| 84% | DIAMONDS | 8 | They're a girl's best friend, according to Marilyn |
| 84% | HANKAARON | 9 | MLB great who said, "Play so good they can't remember what color you were before the season started" |
| 84% | BROILERS | 8 | They're good at cooking for the upper crust |
| 84% | SIDNEYCROSBY | 12 | Hockey great who has been honored with the Best NHL Player ESPY Award eight times (2 wds.) |
| 84% | SPORTCLIMBING | 13 | Wall-ascending event that was to make its debut at the 2020 Olympics: 2 wds. |