| 100% | ALLSTARGAME | 11 | Annual mid-season MLB event won by the American League 4-3 in 2019 (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ALLSTARGAMES | 12 | Annual mid-season MLB events 41-Across played in 13 times (2 wds.) |
| 43% | MIKETROUT | 9 | Center fielder for the Angels who won his third American League MVP award in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 38% | NFLDRAFT | 8 | Annual sports event where Kyler Murray was selected first overall by the Arizona Cardinals in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 37% | MICHAELPHELPS | 13 | American swimmer who won 3 relay Golds in 2016 by breaking the Olympic Record in 3 team events: 2 wds. |
| 36% | JOSEABREU | 9 | First baseman for the White Sox who won the American League MVP award in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 35% | RICHARDPOWERS | 13 | American novelist whose novel "The Overstory" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 34% | TREVORSTORY | 11 | American baseball shortstop who won the National League Shortstop Silver Slugger Award in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 33% | TIGERWOODS | 10 | American professional golfer who won the Laureus Comeback of the Year award in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 33% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | First American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1938: 3 wds. |
| 33% | SOMELIKEITHOT | 13 | 1959 Billy Wilder movie named by the American Film Institute in 2000 as the "greatest American comedy film of all time": 4 wds. |
| 33% | WORLDCUP | 8 | Event won by the U.S. Women’s National Team (July, 2019) |
| 33% | JIMMIEFOXX | 10 | Athletics slugger who was the American League MVP three times in the 1930s (2 wds.) |
| 32% | NLE | 3 | Div. won by the Braves in 2019 |
| 32% | NIT | 3 | Event won by the Univ. of North Texas men's basketball team in 2023 |
| 32% | ACTORSGUILD | 11 | Screen ___ Awards, presented by the SAG-AFTRA, which Nicholson won for his role in "As Good As It Gets": 2 wds. |
| 32% | IGOR | 4 | 2019 studio album by American rapper Tyler, the Creator which won a Grammy for the Best Rap Album in 2020 |
| 32% | NINEINCHNAILS | 13 | American rock band with hits like "Wish," who released their latest EP "Not The Actual Events" in 2016: 3 wds. |
| 32% | VARIABLE | 8 | In the answers to 17-, 34- and 57-Across, it was replaced in turn by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... |
| 32% | STANLEYCUP | 10 | Large silver trophy won by the Penguins: 2 wds. |
| 32% | ANDTHECITY | 10 | "Sex ___," American television show that won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2001: 3 wds. |
| 31% | FLOOREXERCISE | 13 | Gymnastics event won by 40-Across at the 18-Across and five times at the World Championships (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ZIONWILLIAMSON | 14 | Duke forward who was drafted #1 overall by the New Orleans Pelicans in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 31% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 31% | CYYOUNGAWARD | 12 | Annual prize named after the winningest pitcher in Major League history: 3 wds. |
| 30% | JEREMYPENA | 10 | 33-Across shortstop who was named MVP of both the American League Championship Series and the World Series in 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | TAKINGTHE | 9 | "___ Long Way," country album by The Chicks that won a Grammy Award in 2007: 2 wds. |
| 30% | TEXASRANGERS | 12 | 2023 American League wildcard team that defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks to win their first World Series title (2 wds.) |
| 30% | SURFINSAFARI | 12 | Hit released by The Beach Boys in 1962 which was featured in "American Graffiti" starring Richard Dreyfuss: 2 wds. |
| 30% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in 2019: 2 wds. |