| 100% | DHLAWRENCE | 10 | Novelist/poet not playing the field? |
| 55% | DATEDAROUND | 11 | Played the field |
| 53% | DATE | 4 | Play the field, so to speak |
| 53% | DATER | 5 | One playing the field |
| 50% | DHED | 4 | Batted without playing the field, for short |
| 50% | DHS | 3 | They don't play the field: Abbr. |
| 50% | XXX | 3 | They don't play the field, briefly |
| 50% | CHEATING | 8 | Not playing by the rules |
| 49% | DHS | 3 | MLB sluggers who don't play the field |
| 48% | DHED | 4 | Was a swinger but didn’t play the field? |
| 47% | ONTO | 4 | Run ___ the field (prepare to play) |
| 46% | FOREHAND | 8 | Tennis shot not played across the body |
| 46% | HOME | 4 | Like games not played on the road |
| 45% | DICE | 4 | "God does not play ___ with the world": Einstein |
| 45% | SAW | 3 | Musical instrument not played by the Carpenters, sadly |
| 45% | MOW | 3 | Level the playing field? |
| 45% | AGAINST | 7 | Playing on the field |
| 45% | COORS | 5 | ___ Field, where the Rockies play |
| 45% | SAFECO | 6 | ___ Field (where the Mariners play) |
| 45% | CITI | 4 | ___ Field (where the Mets play) |
| 45% | DOWNS | 5 | Plays on the field |
| 45% | LACROSSE | 8 | Sport not played officially in the Olympics since 1908 |
| 45% | HOMEGAMES | 9 | The Mets play them at Citi Field |
| 45% | GOAL | 4 | Field ___ (three-point play in the NFL) |
| 44% | BEATS | 5 | Defeats on the playing field |
| 44% | MOWED | 5 | Leveled the playing field, say? |
| 44% | NERO | 4 | Emperor who, in actuality, played the lyre, not the violin |
| 43% | EGOS | 4 | They may clash on the playing field |
| 43% | MOW | 3 | Level the playing field, in a way? |
| 42% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "Behold the duck / It does not cluck" |