| 49% | DIDNTWORKOUT | 12 | "So then I dated a fun couch potato, but he ..." |
| 37% | LOU | 3 | Famed baseball player after whom a disease was named, ___ Gehrig |
| 37% | JOHNMCENROE | 11 | He was a champion tennis player before he hosted "The Chair": 2 wds. |
| 36% | NAT | 3 | Baseball player whose stadium is a few miles from the White House, for short |
| 36% | SOSA | 4 | Baseball player Sammy who was in a home run rivalry with Mark McGwire in 1998 |
| 36% | LETMEDOWN | 9 | "I dated my rock climbing instructor for a while, but he just ..." |
| 35% | AINT | 4 | "I may not be the brightest, but I ____ a liar!" |
| 35% | IMNO | 4 | "___ genius, but I am a decent coder.": 2 wds. |
| 35% | AROD | 4 | Former baseball player who has been a guest shark on "Shark Tank," familiarly: Hyph. |
| 35% | MISSEDTHECUT | 12 | "I was in a serious relationship with a hippie, but he ..." |
| 34% | LOT | 3 | "I cry a ___ but I am so productive, it's an art" |
| 34% | SLEW | 4 | "But, as he was ambitious, I __ him" : Brutus |
| 34% | KORAN | 5 | Whence the line "God sufficeth me: there is no God but He" |
| 34% | ERE | 3 | “How long will a man lie i’ the earth ___ he rot?”: “Hamlet” |
| 33% | POE | 3 | He wrote "All that we see or seem / Is but a dream within a dream" |
| 33% | GROUCHOMARX | 11 | He said "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury" |
| 33% | CRACKYOURPATE | 13 | "When a man is nervous about shipping breakables, I tell him, '___ carefully, sir' ..." |
| 33% | TYPE | 4 | "He's really not my ___" ("Don't set me up on a date with him") |
| 33% | THROWNOUT | 9 | Fired, as a baseball player? |
| 33% | BAT | 3 | What a baseball player swings |
| 33% | CAP | 3 | Hat for a baseball player |
| 33% | OUTOFLEFTFIELD | 14 | Surprising, to a baseball player? |
| 32% | HYDE | 4 | “If he be Mr. ___ . . . I shall be Mr. Seek” (musing from Gabriel Utterson in a Robert Louis Stevenson book) |
| 32% | COULDNTFINDTHETHYME | 19 | "I always wanted to be a gardener, but I ... " |
| 32% | HADNOCOMMONSCENTS | 17 | "I always wanted to be a perfumer, but I ... " |
| 32% | HAVENTGOTWHATIKNEAD | 19 | "I always wanted to be a baker, but I ... " |
| 32% | JUSTDIDNTGETTHEPOINTE | 21 | "I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I ... " |
| 32% | ASHE | 4 | "But, ___ was ambitious, I slew him": Brutus |
| 32% | CECILFIELDER | 12 | Fitting name for a baseball player |
| 32% | BAT | 3 | Club swung by a baseball player |