| 100% | BATTLE | 6 | Lose the __ but win the war |
| 56% | OHIOSTATE | 9 | Women's hockey team that won the NCAA Tournament championship in 2022 but lost to 36-Across in 2023 (2 wds.) |
| 56% | GRANT | 5 | Winning general in the Civil War |
| 55% | DEFEATED | 8 | Waterloo chorus lyrics: I was __, you won the war |
| 53% | FRANCE | 6 | Winning country in the Hundred Years' War |
| 53% | SPARTA | 6 | City-state that won the Peloponnesian War |
| 53% | TIMEWAITSFORNOMAN | 17 | "Slow and steady wins the race, but ..." |
| 52% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA song with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 52% | WATERLOO | 8 | ABBA hit with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 52% | MERIT | 5 | "Charms strike the sight, but ___ wins the soul": Alexander Pope |
| 52% | SPARTA | 6 | Ancient city-state that won the Peloponnesian War |
| 52% | SPARTA | 6 | City-state that helped win the Peloponnesian Wars |
| 52% | ERIE | 4 | Losing tribe in the Beaver Wars |
| 51% | WATERLOO | 8 | 39-Down song with the line "I was defeated, you won the war" |
| 51% | MOSTAR | 6 | City famously lost a bridge in the Bosnian War |
| 51% | SOUL | 4 | "Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the ___": Pope |
| 51% | ISRAEL | 6 | Country that won the Six-Day War in 1967 |
| 51% | NONE | 4 | "___ but the Brave," war movie starring Frank Sinatra |
| 51% | LEE | 3 | Losing general in the US Civil War |
| 50% | PLATOON | 7 | 1986 war movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 49% | SUNG | 4 | "Tina had ___ her heart out, but still lost the singing competition" |
| 48% | AMAL | 4 | "This Is How You Lose the Time War" co-writer ___ El-Mohtar |
| 48% | SIHAYAKAWA | 10 | Semantics professor who won the election that 66 Across and Tunney lost |
| 47% | FINDINGNEMO | 11 | 2003 Pixar film about a lost fish that won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature: 2 wds. |
| 47% | ELIHUROOT | 9 | Secretary of War who went on to win the 1912 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 47% | ARES | 4 | God on the losing side of the Trojan War |
| 47% | TRITE | 5 | Like the saying "You win some, you lose some" |
| 47% | EDGE | 4 | It can be the difference between winning and losing |
| 47% | FINDINGNEMO | 11 | Pixar film about a lost fish that won the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature: 2 wds. |
| 46% | SUNS | 4 | Team that's made the NBA playoffs 29 times but never won the championship |