| 100% | ALOUS | 5 | Only trio of brothers to play together in the outfield in an MLB game |
| 73% | ALOU | 4 | Last name of the only MLB brother trio to play together in the outfield |
| 67% | ALOU | 4 | Surname of the only M.L.B. brother trio to play together in the outfield |
| 48% | OMAR | 4 | Vizquel who's the only shortstop to play in four decades of MLB games |
| 44% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 44% | CHUCKCONNORS | 12 | Actor who was one of only 13 athletes to play in both the NBA and the MLB (2 wds.) |
| 43% | BOJACKSON | 9 | Only athlete to play in an MLB All-Star Game and an NFL Pro Bowl |
| 40% | ENDPLAY | 7 | Tactical play in the last few tricks of a game of bridge forcing an opponent to make a particular lead |
| 39% | SATCHELPAIGE | 12 | Kansas City Athletics pitcher who, at age 59 in 1965, became the oldest person to play in an MLB game (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | Outfielder who hit the only inside-the-park home run in an MLB All-Star Game (2 wds.) |
| 37% | WILT | 4 | Chamberlain who is still the only person to ever score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 36% | OFF | 3 | Prefix with "side" to mean an important rule in the game of soccer |
| 35% | METS | 4 | MLB team that had the worst regular-season record of any team to play in the World Series |
| 35% | MALEK | 5 | Rami ___, actor who plays Safin, an adversary of 8a in the movie "No Time to Die" |
| 35% | INDIAN | 6 | ← Member of the only team to win this many games in a season |
| 34% | LIAM | 4 | Brother of Chris Hemsworth who played Gale Hawthorne in "The Hunger Games" |
| 34% | MARINER | 7 | Member of the only M.L.B. team never to have played in a World Series |
| 33% | ALOU | 4 | Surname of the only all-brother outfield in M.L.B. history |
| 33% | GORDIEHOWE | 10 | Hartford Whalers winger who, at age 52 in 1980, became the oldest person to play in an NHL game (2 wds.) |
| 33% | GEORGEBLANDA | 12 | Oakland Raiders placekicker who, at age 48 in 1976, became the oldest person to play in an NFL game (2 wds.) |
| 33% | STARINGCONTEST | 14 | Game that's over in the blink of an eye |
| 33% | JACKQUAID | 9 | Son of Meg Ryan; played Marvel in The Hunger Games |
| 33% | AUTO | 4 | Lead-in to straddle, in the name of an online magazine |
| 33% | EVELYNASHFORD | 13 | The first track and field athlete to run 100 meters under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games and who has won a total of 5 Olympic medals: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ROSE | 4 | Pete ___, former baseball player who is the all-time MLB leader in hits and number of games played |
| 33% | POLO | 4 | Game played in an anagram of itself |
| 33% | CHITS | 5 | Notes of indebtedness to the one who trounced you in the weekend poker game |
| 33% | ARENA | 5 | Shape of the playing area in the dice game "Strike!" |
| 32% | SLEEP | 5 | Activity that seems to pass in the blink of an eye |