100% | BRADY | 5 | 80 for ___ (2023 movie about four friends who travel to see their favorite quarterback, Tom, at the Super Bowl) |
31% | BRADY | 5 | Tom ___, former New England Patriots quarterback who has been invited to the Pro Bowl a record-setting 15 times |
31% | MARV | 4 | ___ Levy, Hall-of-Fame coach who led the Buffalo Bills to four Super Bowl appearances |
30% | MEG | 3 | “___ 2: The Trench” (August, 2023, sequel to a movie about a giant shark) |
30% | JALENHURTS | 10 | Philadelphia Eagles quarterback who rushed for a record-tying three touchdowns in the 2023 Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
30% | SLO | 3 | ___-mo replay (what you may see at the Super Bowl) |
29% | RENEE | 5 | Fleming who was the first opera singer to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl (2014) |
26% | TENNESSEE | 9 | ___ Three (name given to the lawmakers who were subject to expulsion votes for protesting in support of gun reform, in April, 2023) |
25% | REF | 3 | Official at the Super Bowl, for short |
25% | PATRICKMAHOMES | 14 | Chiefs quarterback who was named MVP of the 2023 Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
24% | DREW | 4 | ___ Brees, former New Orleans Saints quarterback who has been invited to the Pro Bowl 13 times |
24% | TDS | 3 | Four for the Bucs in Super Bowl LV, briefly |
24% | MANNING | 7 | Peyton ___, former Indianapolis Colts quarterback who has been invited to the Pro Bowl 14 times |
24% | FLORES | 6 | Tom ___, American former football player who won the Super Bowl as a player, assistant coach, and head coach |
23% | CHRISSTAPLETON | 14 | "Tennessee Whiskey" country singer who sang the National Anthem at the 2023 Super Bowl: 2 wds. |
23% | PASTLIVES | 9 | 2023 Celine Song movie about childhood friends who reconnect |
23% | VIOLINIST | 9 | One who takes a bow? (see 19-Down for a hint to the circles) |
23% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
23% | ADS | 3 | They're what non-sports fans watch the Super Bowl to see |
23% | CROWN | 5 | "The ___," Netflix show about Queen Elizabeth II nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the 2023 Emmy Awards |
23% | MIRACLE | 7 | "___ on 34th Street," 1947 movie about a mall Santa who claims to be the real Santa Claus |
23% | HELEN | 5 | ___ Mirren, "Shazam! Fury of the Gods" actress who is the narrator for the 2023 movie "Barbie" |
22% | YIYUN | 5 | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “The Book of Goose,” about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
22% | | 0 | Desirable streaming feature (other than for the Super Bowl) |
22% | ELEANOR | 7 | Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023) |
22% | BOOMERESIASON | 13 | Left-handed quarterback who lost the 1989 Super Bowl with the Cincinnati Bengals: 2 wds. |
22% | KENSTABLER | 10 | Left-handed quarterback who won the 1977 Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders: 2 wds. |
22% | ADELE | 5 | Haenel who cited the film industry’s complacency toward sexual aggressors as the reason for her retirement from acting (May, 2023) |
21% | LOTT | 4 | Ronnie who earned four Super Bowl rings with the 49ers |
21% | STEVEYOUNG | 10 | Left-handed quarterback who won the 1995 Super Bowl with the San Francisco 49ers: 2 wds. |