| 100% | CLOSER | 6 | Pitcher sent in to seal a win |
| 52% | MOYER | 5 | Jamie ___, oldest pitcher in major-league history to win a game |
| 52% | DIZZYDEAN | 9 | Last N.L. pitcher to win 30 games in a season (1934) |
| 45% | SEAR | 4 | Quickly scorch to seal in juices, as a steak |
| 45% | FIRE | 4 | Emoji sent in response to a hot outfit pic |
| 45% | BCCED | 5 | Sent secret messages to, in a way |
| 45% | PING | 4 | Send a quick message to, in slang |
| 44% | ENVELOPE | 8 | A paper container used to send letters in |
| 44% | SPAMS | 5 | Sends 10 texts in a row to, say |
| 44% | WOO | 3 | Try to win, in a way |
| 44% | KOS | 3 | Sends to the canvas, in a boxing match: Abbr. |
| 44% | CLEARFAVORITE | 13 | Candidate likely to win in a landslide |
| 43% | OUTSIDER | 8 | In betting, a long-shot, not likely to win |
| 43% | STARTER | 7 | First pitcher to pitch in a ball game |
| 43% | SETPOINT | 8 | In tennis, the last one to win a group of games |
| 42% | DEFEAT | 6 | To beat or win over someone in a contest |
| 42% | BYANOSE | 7 | Close way to win, in a horse race: 3 wds. |
| 42% | ANGLEE | 6 | First nonwhite person to win a directing Oscar, in 2006 |
| 42% | ISLE | 4 | Place from which to send a message in a bottle |
| 42% | STAMP | 5 | Use one to send a letter anywhere in the world |
| 42% | EMAILBLAST | 10 | Strategy for sending a message to lots of in-boxes |
| 41% | CURIE | 5 | Only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields |
| 41% | SLAP | 4 | Try to win a pile of cards, in Egyptian Rat Screw |
| 41% | TENNIS | 6 | Sent in to organise game |
| 41% | DOUG | 4 | ___ Williams, first Black quarterback to start in, and win, a 15 Across |
| 40% | EMOJI | 5 | Smiley you send in text messages, and a word added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2015 |
| 40% | TENNISMATCH | 11 | Sent in to organise equal game |
| 40% | LSD | 3 | Pitcher Dock Ellis claimed to have used this before throwing a no-hitter in 1970 |
| 40% | NKJEMISIN | 9 | First author to win a Hugo Award for every book in a trilogy |