| 100% | LEBRON | 6 | Father in the first father-son pair to play in the same 36 Down game |
| 43% | LEEELDER | 8 | First African-American golfer to play in the Masters |
| 41% | LLOYD | 5 | Earl ___, first African American to play in the NBA |
| 41% | ELDER | 5 | Lee __, first African-American to play in the Masters |
| 41% | SEVENOFDIAMONDS | 15 | First card played in the game parliament |
| 40% | LLOYD | 5 | Earl ___, first African-American to play in the N.B.A. |
| 39% | OMAR | 4 | Vizquel who's the only shortstop to play in four decades of MLB games |
| 38% | ERICBANA | 8 | First person to play the Hulk in the 2000s |
| 38% | EGGTOSS | 7 | Game in which the first player to crack loses? |
| 38% | JACKQUAID | 9 | Son of Meg Ryan; played Marvel in The Hunger Games |
| 38% | NIL | 3 | Losing score in the first official basketball game played on January 20, 1892 |
| 38% | LISA | 4 | ___ Leslie, the first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game |
| 38% | STONES | 6 | First international rock band to play in Cuba (2016), with "the" |
| 37% | MCGEE | 5 | Pamela ___, first WNBA player to have children play in the NBA and the WNBA |
| 37% | LISA | 4 | ___ Leslie, the first player to dunk in a WNBA game |
| 37% | RACKET | 6 | Something needed to play the game depicted in this puzzle |
| 37% | TITLE | 5 | With 66-Across, images played in silent films, and what one might use to play the games in the first parts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | MIGHTYDUCKS | 11 | NHL team who played their first game in 1993 (and the team featured in the Disney films with cameos by the answers to the starred clues) (2 wds.) |
| 37% | MANON | 5 | ___ Rheaume, first woman to play in any of the major North American pro-sports leagues |
| 37% | OLDER | 5 | Father compared to the son in terms of age |
| 37% | ANTE | 4 | First contribution to the 33-Across, in card games |
| 36% | UNITAS | 6 | Winning QB in the first N.F.L. playoff game to go into sudden-death overtime |
| 36% | TOBEY | 5 | Actor Maguire who was the first to play Spider-Man in movies |
| 36% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
| 36% | MIGHTYDUCKS | 11 | NHL team whose first game was played October 8, 1993 (and the team featured in the Disney films that had cameos by the answers to the starred clues) (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ONE | 3 | Winning team's score in the first official basketball game played in Albany, New York, in 1892 |
| 36% | SERIES | 6 | When two or more games are played between the same teams in baseball it is called a ____ |
| 36% | BRYANT | 6 | Kobe ___, former Los Angeles Lakers player who was the first guard to play 20 seasons in NBA |
| 36% | TRI | 3 | The first "T" in 36-Down |
| 36% | UNO | 3 | Game in which the object is to be the first player to score 500 points |