| 100% | PEPSI | 5 | Onetime "Taste that beats the others cold" advertiser |
| 72% | PEPSI | 5 | "Taste that beats the others cold" sloganeer, once |
| 41% | WIN | 3 | Beat the other team |
| 38% | ACS | 3 | Appliances that beat the heat: Abbr. |
| 37% | FOES | 4 | Those on the other side? |
| 37% | WOOT | 4 | Gamer's "Yayyy, we beat the other team!" |
| 36% | OPPONENTS | 9 | The others that one is competing against |
| 36% | CUBS | 4 | Team that beat the Indians in the 2016 World Series |
| 36% | NATS | 4 | Team that beat the ’Stros in the 2019 World Series |
| 34% | ANY | 3 | This, that or the other |
| 34% | SAINTS | 6 | NFL team that beat the Colts to win the Super Bowl in 2010 |
| 34% | MINNESOTATWINS | 14 | Team that beat the Atlanta Braves in the 1991 World Series (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ACE | 3 | Card that beats a king in the game of war |
| 33% | WARANDPEACE | 11 | Pair that surrounds the other six longest answers |
| 33% | FLU | 3 | Bug that thrives in the cold |
| 33% | TEXASRANGERS | 12 | Arlington team that beat the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the 2023 World Series: 2 wds. |
| 32% | MOONLIGHT | 9 | Movie that beat La La Land for the Oscar in 2017 |
| 32% | MAINE | 5 | The only US state that borders exactly one other |
| 32% | DRUMSOLOS | 9 | Musical performances that hit all the beats? |
| 32% | TESLAS | 6 | Cars that charge slowly in the cold |
| 32% | DEEPCUTS | 8 | Tracks that are off the beaten path |
| 32% | GOLDENSTATE | 11 | Team that beat Cleveland to win the 2015 NBA Finals: 2 wds. |
| 32% | CABRIOLE | 8 | Ballet jump with one leg outstretched and the other beating against it |
| 32% | KYOTO | 5 | Onetime capital of Japan that anagrams to the current capital |
| 32% | HEARING | 7 | The sense that isn't vision, smell, taste or touch |
| 31% | COKE | 4 | "Sign of Good Taste" advertiser, in the 1950s |
| 31% | FOMO | 4 | The feeling that other people are having fun without you |
| 31% | SOURBEER | 8 | Brewpub order that's tart to the taste |
| 31% | EARS | 4 | Things that might be muffed in the cold |
| 31% | AMID | 4 | "___ the confusion ..." ("While those other things are going on ...") |