| 100% | VANPELT | 7 | Lucy __ always yanked the football from Charlie |
| 48% | LUCY | 4 | Girl who pulls the football away from Charlie Brown |
| 38% | HANDOFF | 7 | Transfer of the football from a quarterback to a runner |
| 38% | BENCH | 5 | Yank from the game |
| 38% | UPROOT | 6 | Yank from the ground |
| 38% | UPROOT | 6 | Yank from the soil |
| 36% | BENCH | 5 | Yank from the Yankees lineup, e.g. |
| 35% | BALL | 4 | Stop the loop in these popular TV shows! (1/6) Stop Lucy from pulling away this soccer plaything to trip Charlie Brown yet again! |
| 34% | UPSTREAM | 8 | Always drink __ from the herd: Will Rogers quote |
| 33% | RUNNINGJOKE | 11 | Lucy pulling the football away in "Peanuts," e.g. |
| 33% | BEBOP | 5 | Genre for Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple from the Apple” |
| 33% | GOOD | 4 | "___ grief!" catchphrase for Charlie Brown from the "Peanuts" comic |
| 32% | ANTS | 4 | What football players might look like from the MetLife Blimp |
| 32% | REALMADRID | 10 | Spanish football club; winners of the European Cup from 1956-60 |
| 31% | TOGETHER | 8 | "___ for Christmas," 1962 Christmas episode from the TV series "The Lucy Show" |
| 31% | PELE | 4 | Football prodigy from Brazil who won FIFA World Player of the Century along with Maradona |
| 30% | REDZONE | 7 | Area 20 yards or less from the opponent's goal line, in football |
| 30% | WIDE | 4 | ___ receiver, American football position that's responsible for catching passes from the quarterback |
| 30% | LIU | 3 | Lucy of the "Charlie's Angels" films |
| 30% | LIU | 3 | Lucy of the "Charlie's Angels" movies |
| 30% | WARD | 4 | Charlie ___, former basketball player for the New York Knicks who was also an exceptional football player |
| 30% | VEERS | 5 | Yanks the wheel |
| 29% | IDEA | 4 | "Paris is always a good ___" (line from the film "Sabrina") |
| 29% | BALL | 4 | Why is Cinderella so bad at soccer? "Because she's always running away from the ___!" |
| 28% | IDY | 3 | "Charlie Weaver, the wild old man from Mount ___" |
| 28% | FISH | 4 | "There's always a bigger ___," famous quote by Qui-Gon Jinn from the "Star Wars" franchise |
| 28% | SOCCER | 6 | American word for "football," comes from the UK |
| 28% | GENESTALLINGS | 13 | Former NFL coach who coached the University of Alabama football team from 1990 to 1996 (2 wds.) |
| 27% | GOODGRIEF | 9 | Comment from Charlie Brown |
| 27% | RATS | 4 | Cry from Charlie Brown |