| 46% | INDIAN | 6 | ← Member of the only team to win this many games in a season |
| 37% | ONFIRE | 6 | In the middle of a hell of winning streak |
| 35% | SETPOINT | 8 | In tennis, the last one to win a group of games |
| 35% | EXPOS | 5 | Team with the best record in MLB at the time of the season-ending 1994 strike |
| 33% | LEG | 3 | Limb with which you would kick the ball in a game of soccer |
| 33% | FRANKIEMUNIZ | 12 | "Malcolm in the Middle" actor who was a finalist on season 25 of "Dancing with the Stars" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | BASEBALL | 8 | One of the sports 15-Across played as a pro, for six seasons with three teams |
| 32% | ZERO | 4 | Number of games won by the losing player in a "bagel" set, in tennis |
| 32% | OILERS | 6 | N.H.L. team with five championship-winning seasons in the 1980s |
| 32% | OLDTOWNROAD | 11 | Lil Nas X hit with a record-setting 143 million US streams in the week of April 20, 2019: 3 wds. |
| 32% | ONFIRE | 6 | In the midst of a hot streak |
| 32% | BILL | 4 | NBA Hall of Famer ___ Russell, who was the leader of a Boston Celtics team that won 11 titles from 1957-1969 |
| 31% | SHAWNJOHNSON | 12 | Gymnast who won season 8 and was runner-up in season 15 of "Dancing With the Stars": 2 wds. |
| 31% | HURRICANES | 10 | NHL team with a one-eyed logo (in this case, the "eye" is the center of a tropical storm) |
| 31% | DONNY | 5 | Singer Osmond who won a season of "Dancing With the Stars" |
| 31% | CHICAGO | 7 | & 1A Basketball team that won the NBA Finals three times in a row twice, from 1991-93 and 1996-98 |
| 31% | CELTICS | 7 | NBA team with a one-eyed logo (the other eye's hidden because the Irish mascot is winking) |
| 31% | ATLANTA | 7 | With 34-Across, NFC South squad that is one of four NFL teams that plays their home games in a fixed-roof stadium |
| 31% | ALAI | 4 | Word in the name of a pelota game |
| 31% | MINIMAP | 7 | Inset in the corner of a game screen |
| 31% | SOCCER | 6 | Game with a team of 11 |
| 30% | LUKADONCIC | 10 | 2019 NBA Rookie of the Year who was named to the NBA All-Star team three years in a row (2 wds.) |
| 30% | CHECKMATE | 9 | Winning move in a game of chess |
| 30% | CHINESECHECKERS | 15 | Game with a star in the middle |
| 30% | SWEPT | 5 | Won all the games in a series |
| 30% | WARRIORS | 8 | Golden State team that did not win the NBA championship despite setting the regular season record for most wins in 2016 |
| 30% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 30% | EAST | 4 | One team in the N.B.A. All-Star Game, with "the" |
| 30% | BULLS | 5 | Chicago NBA team that won six championships in the 1990s |
| 30% | ENYA | 4 | Irish singer with a 2006 "Sounds of the Season" album |