| 100% | TEESHOT | 7 | Opening stroke of a golf game (2 wds.) |
| 62% | TEEOFF | 6 | Start a golf game: 2 wds. |
| 59% | ACTI | 4 | Opening part of a play: 2 wds. |
| 59% | TOPSTORY | 8 | Opening segment of a newscast: 2 wds. |
| 56% | DEARSIR | 7 | Opening line of a letter to a gentleman: 2 wds. |
| 55% | TEESHOT | 7 | Golf stroke using a driver: 2 wds. |
| 52% | NOTIT | 5 | Child's shout at the beginning of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 52% | NOTIT | 5 | What some people shout at the start of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 51% | PUTT | 4 | Final stroke of a golf tournament, usually |
| 51% | QUIZLADY | 8 | 2023 Hulu comedy starring 16-Across as the sister of a game show fanatic: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ACTI | 4 | Opening of a Shakespeare play (2 wds.) |
| 49% | THU | 3 | Opening day of a golf major: Abbr. |
| 49% | TEEDOFF | 7 | Began a round of golf: 2 wds. |
| 49% | TEEOFF | 6 | Begin a hole of golf: 2 wds. |
| 49% | BACKSWING | 9 | Start of a golf stroke |
| 49% | HOLEINONE | 9 | Best score available at each stage of a golf game |
| 48% | TEE | 3 | It's used for the first stroke of a golf hole |
| 48% | SAMSNEAD | 8 | Winner of a record 82 PGA Tour events, and a charter member of the World Golf Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 47% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | First part of a possible solution in a game of Clue (2 wds.) |
| 47% | HAILMARY | 8 | Long, desperate pass at the end of a football game: 2 wds. |
| 47% | ALYSSANAKKEN | 12 | First woman to coach on the field of a Major League Baseball game, for the San Francisco Giants in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 47% | NOTIT | 5 | Cry during a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 47% | NOTIT | 5 | Call in a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 46% | TEESHOT | 7 | Golfer's opening stroke: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ACTSOUT | 7 | Pantomimes, in a game of charades: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ASON | 4 | "I'll be ___ of a gun!": 2 wds. |
| 46% | IWANT | 5 | Start of a brat's demand: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ONEK | 4 | Length of a kids' fun run: 2 wds. |
| 46% | TOBE | 4 | Start of a famous "Hamlet" soliloquy: 2 wds. |
| 46% | WHATIF | 6 | Start of a hypothetical question. "Suppose...": 2 wds |