| 100% | MILITARY | 8 | Common career choice, with "the" |
| 56% | SHULA | 5 | NFL coach with the most career wins |
| 54% | DONSHULA | 8 | N.F.L. coach with the most career wins |
| 54% | PETEROSE | 8 | Baseball player with the most career hits (2 wds.) |
| 54% | RONALDO | 7 | Cristiano ___, soccer star with the most career goals (946) |
| 54% | DEVO | 4 | Band with the 1980 hit album "Freedom of Choice" |
| 54% | CLINTON | 7 | Politician with the memoirs "Hard Choices" and "What Happened" |
| 51% | AROD | 4 | Yankee slugger with the most M.L.B. career grand slams, informally |
| 51% | TYCOBB | 6 | Baseball Hall of Famer with the record for highest career batting average |
| 51% | SAJAK | 5 | Pat with the record for longest career hosting a single game show |
| 51% | PEPSI | 5 | Product once advertised with the slogan "The choice of a new generation" |
| 51% | SAAB | 4 | Car once advertised with the slogan "The relentless pursuit of common sense" |
| 51% | MALTS | 5 | Drinks common in the 1950s (rhymes with "salts") |
| 51% | META | 4 | Prefix from the Greek for "in common with" |
| 50% | SAME | 4 | Common bar order, with "the" |
| 50% | EVERT | 5 | Tennis star with the highest career winning percentage in singles matches (89.97%) |
| 50% | GEORGEBRETT | 11 | Infielder with the most career homers (317) as a Royals player: 2 wds. |
| 49% | CALRIPKENJR | 11 | Infielder with the most career homers (431) as an Orioles player: 3 wds., abbr. |
| 49% | CARLOSDELGADO | 13 | Infielder with the most career homers (336) as a Blue Jays player: 2 wds. |
| 48% | THEYALLCONTAINA | 15 | With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common |
| 48% | LIFE | 4 | Board game with a choice to "Start Career" or "Start College" |
| 48% | BOOK | 4 | Common library item, with a name originating from the Proto-Germanic language |
| 48% | SEALION | 7 | A seal with ears and a mane, common in the Pacific |
| 47% | WOODPIGEON | 10 | Common bird of the UK with mainly grey plumage and a white neck patch |
| 47% | DRURY | 5 | Common name of the Theatre Royal on Catherine Street, London, associated with Nell Gwyn |
| 47% | PURSLANE | 8 | Weedy plant with edible leaves of the genus Portulaca such as common — |
| 47% | SANDPIPER | 9 | Wading bird with long legs and slender bill such as the Common — |
| 47% | TREECREEPER | 11 | Small songbird with a curved bill, such as UK resident the common — |
| 46% | SAME | 4 | Common order, with "the" |