| 100% | PTA | 3 | Ca___in of the team |
| 80% | ROYKENT | 7 | Captain of the team in Ted Lasso's first season |
| 78% | CHEECH | 6 | Half of the "Up in Smoke" comedy team |
| 77% | NATS | 4 | Nickname of the pro baseball team in Washington, DC |
| 76% | ASTRO | 5 | Member of the losing team in the 2021 World Series |
| 74% | PAT | 3 | Member of the losing Super Bowl team in 2012, for short |
| 74% | LOSINGCRANKS | 12 | Team of eccentrics who are behind in the game? |
| 73% | CHAPMAN | 7 | Graham —, member of the Monty Python comedy team who died in 1989 |
| 73% | UTES | 4 | Runnin’ ___ (nickname of the Pac-12 team based in Salt Lake City) |
| 73% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two baseball teams |
| 73% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two MLB teams |
| 72% | INDIAN | 6 | ← Member of the only team to win this many games in a season |
| 72% | SLED | 4 | What a team of dogs pulls in the Iditarod |
| 72% | SOX | 3 | Second word in the names of two MLB teams |
| 71% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | ___ Steelers, the team that has won the most number of Super Bowls in history |
| 71% | KERRI | 5 | Olympic gymnast Strug who was part of the gold-winning American team in 1996 |
| 71% | LOSS | 4 | ___ of Down, penalty incurred on the offensive team in the NFL |
| 71% | SLED | 4 | What a team of dogs pulls in the Iditarod race |
| 71% | JAY | 3 | Blue bird in the name of a pro baseball team |
| 71% | SOX | 3 | Word in the names of two American League baseball teams |
| 70% | TAMPABAY | 8 | Team that has a tankful of rays in the back of its ballpark |
| 70% | EXPANSION | 9 | Increase in the number of teams in a league, e.g. |
| 70% | ELLIS | 5 | Kendall ___, sprinter who was a part of the team who set the world record for distance medley relay in 2022 |
| 69% | MARINER | 7 | Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series |
| 69% | CACTUSLEAGUE | 12 | Nickname of the baseball teams who play Spring Training exhibition games in 30-Across (2 wds.) |
| 69% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 69% | OILER | 5 | Member of a four-time Stanley Cup-winning team in the 1980s |
| 68% | YANK | 4 | One of the players on the winning team that played the Braves in the '58 World Series |
| 68% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Bernie Sanders was captain of the track team at James Madison H. S. in this NY borough |
| 68% | PLAYER | 6 | One of the team |