| 100% | DRAFT | 5 | Process used to assign players in some sports |
| 39% | EPEE | 4 | Sport in which you could use some pointers? |
| 38% | EPEE | 4 | Sport in which players don't want to get tips |
| 36% | PAD | 3 | I'm used by many sports players to protect themselves from injuries |
| 36% | OPERATION | 9 | Board game in which players use tweezers to remove a funny bone |
| 35% | TEN | 3 | Perfection, in some sports |
| 35% | NET | 3 | Target in some sports |
| 35% | PLOTHOOK | 8 | What a GM uses to get players involved in a story |
| 35% | FOULED | 6 | Made illegal contact with, in some sports |
| 35% | TENS | 4 | Perfect scores, in some sports |
| 35% | TEN | 3 | Perfect score in some sports |
| 35% | NERF | 4 | Material in some sports equipment |
| 34% | ROTOGRAVURE | 11 | Printing process using a cylinder with small recesses from which ink is transferred to paper in a rotary press |
| 34% | BLUEONESOWNHORN | 15 | Did some self promotion and tried to emulate Miles Davis' famous trumpet in the process? |
| 34% | LEAGUER | 7 | Player in organized sport |
| 34% | CROSSE | 6 | Equipment used to play the oldest organized sport in North America |
| 34% | CHAOS | 5 | Controlled ___, oxymoron used to describe a situation that seems to be out of control but has some factors in control |
| 34% | RANDOMWALK | 10 | Mathematical process used to model unpredictable phenomena |
| 34% | INNING | 6 | Particular period of play in some sports |
| 34% | PLASMA | 6 | ___ TV (flat panel in some sports bars) |
| 34% | UMPIRE | 6 | A referee in some sports, particularly baseball |
| 34% | GOL | 3 | Comically elongated word in some sports calls |
| 34% | RANKING | 7 | A system that determines how good a player is as compared to others in sports, say |
| 33% | BLUESHELL | 9 | Colorful item in some 45-Across games that gives players a chance to catch the racer in first place (2 wds.) |
| 33% | CURDLING | 8 | Separating process used to turn milk to cheese |
| 33% | MCL | 3 | Knee part cited in some sports injuries (abbr.) |
| 33% | LITTLEHELPHERE | 14 | "I could use some assistance" ... and a hint to the contents of three squares in this puzzle |
| 32% | NOTRADE | 7 | Type of clause included in some sports contracts (Hyph.) |
| 32% | VAULT | 5 | Pole ___, sport played with a pole where players use it to help them jump over a high bar |
| 32% | STRETCHER | 9 | Used to carry off injured football players |