| 100% | BAMA | 4 | N.C.A.A. football champs of '12 and '15 |
| 84% | BAMA | 4 | N.C.A.A. football champs of '09 and '11 |
| 65% | CLEMSON | 7 | With 61-Across, two-time N.C.A.A. football champs of the 2010s |
| 55% | ALABAMA | 7 | 2018 N.C.A.A. football champs |
| 52% | ALROSEN | 7 | A.L. home run champ of 1950 and '53 |
| 50% | LSU | 3 | N.C.A.A. women's basketball champs of 2023, for short |
| 49% | YEARLING | 8 | A horse between 12 and 24 months of age |
| 49% | OSU | 3 | The Cowboys and Cowgirls of the N.C.A.A. |
| 48% | UMASS | 5 | Home of the N.C.A.A.’s Minutewomen and Minutemen |
| 48% | MCQUEEN | 7 | Steve __, artist and director of 12 Years a Slave |
| 46% | BETJEMAN | 8 | 20th C poet of A Subaltern's Love Song and Slough |
| 46% | RAP | 3 | Genre of N.W.A. and Run-D.M.C. |
| 45% | TCU | 3 | The Horned Frogs of the N.C.A.A.’s Big 12 Conference, for short |
| 45% | BRANDI | 6 | "Storage Wars" buyer dubbed a "Young Gun," and the wife of 12-Across |
| 45% | STEPH | 5 | N.B.A. M.V.P. of 2015 and '16, familiarly |
| 45% | BEARWITHME | 10 | "Please be patient" … or a literal description of 15-, 28-, 39- and 52-Across? |
| 45% | DISAPPEARINGINK | 15 | Medium for secret messages, and a hint to making sense of 12 Down answers |
| 44% | CURLY | 5 | Stooge with a shaved head, brother of 15-Across and 9-Down |
| 44% | MOMA | 4 | N.Y.C. home of Magrittes and Matisses |
| 44% | CENTIPEDE | 9 | Carnivorous arthropod with a body of between 15 and 190 segments |
| 43% | OTS | 3 | 2021's Illinois vs. Penn State football game featured nine of these, an N.C.A.A. record |
| 43% | AMENCORNER | 10 | Nickname of a tough section of the Masters course (holes 11, 12, and 13) (2 wds.) |
| 43% | MOMA | 4 | N.Y.C. institution with works of Warhol and Dalí |
| 43% | MOMA | 4 | N.Y.C. institution with works of Warhol and Dali |
| 43% | BLACKANDWHITE | 13 | 15-Across's 1972 #1 hit whose lyrics begin with a mention of ink and a page: 3 wds. |
| 43% | BCS | 3 | N.C.A.A football ranking system: Abbr. |
| 43% | ESPARTO | 7 | Grass of S Europe and N Africa that yields a fibre used to make rope and mats |
| 43% | GEORGEBLANDA | 12 | Placekicker who also played quarterback, and who played a record 26 seasons of professional football: 2 wds. |
| 43% | FLIPFLOPPING | 12 | Switching positions, and a phrase spelled by the first letters of 12 words that have switched positions |
| 42% | TARHEELS | 8 | Five-time N.C.A.A. basketball champs from the A.C.C. |