| 100% | SCRUM | 5 | Method of restarting play in rugby when the opposing packs of forwards group together in a huddle |
| 42% | LINEOUT | 7 | Method of restarting play in rugby union after the ball has gone into touch |
| 31% | PROP | 4 | In rugby, either of the forwards at an end of the front row of a scrum |
| 30% | KICKOFF | 7 | Method of starting play in a game of football |
| 29% | DOVETAILS | 9 | Fits together nicely . . . or a description of the last words of the starred clues’ answers, when read in order? |
| 29% | DRUMSET | 7 | Group beaten in a battle of the bands? |
| 29% | TEAM | 4 | Sports group that plays together... or perhaps a part of the title of your friend group |
| 29% | CAST | 4 | Group of performers in a play |
| 29% | CAST | 4 | Group of actors in a play |
| 29% | CAST | 4 | Group of players in a play |
| 29% | PELOTON | 7 | Group of cyclists in a pack |
| 28% | NANCYTRAVIS | 11 | "The Kominsky Method" actress who plays the grandmother of a critically ill girl in the 2024 film "Ordinary Angels" (2 wds.) |
| 28% | ALPHA | 5 | The leader in a pack of wolves |
| 28% | SPECTATOR | 9 | In a play, a member of the audience |
| 28% | NOHIT | 5 | A game in baseball when the opposing team fails to record a single base hit: 2 wds. |
| 28% | ONONEKNEE | 9 | Like people in the front row of a group photo, often |
| 28% | PINK | 4 | I was a member of the girl group "Choice" before going solo and I played Dede in "Thanks for Sharing" |
| 28% | TEAM | 4 | Group playing on the same side in a sport |
| 28% | COMMUNITY | 9 | A group of people living in the same place |
| 27% | CARAVAN | 7 | A pack of camels, or in the UK, a house on wheels |
| 27% | FAVORITE | 8 | The thing you most prefer in a group of like items |
| 27% | TEAMS | 5 | Groups of players in a tourney, such as the LA Lakers |
| 27% | CARPAL | 6 | A group of bones in the wrist |
| 27% | CLUTCH | 6 | Like a winning play in the final seconds of overtime |
| 27% | TEAM | 4 | Group of people who play a sport together |
| 27% | MINGDYNASTY | 11 | Group that was in power when the best-preserved form of this puzzle's landmark was built |
| 26% | CLANS | 5 | Groups of people in a territory (as ones in the game "Clash of ___") |
| 26% | SETPOINT | 8 | In tennis, the last one to win a group of games |
| 26% | EPHESIANS | 9 | Group in the name of a New Testament epistle |
| 26% | ACTIII | 6 | When George sings "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in the play |