| 100% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Quotable Yankees catcher who caught 15-Across's perfect game: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DAVIDCONE | 9 | Yankees pitcher who threw a perfect game in 1999: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DOMINGOGERMAN | 13 | Yankees pitcher who threw a perfect game in 2023: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SALMAGLIE | 9 | Losing pitcher for the Dodgers in 15-Across's perfect game: 2 wds. |
| 44% | DONLARSEN | 9 | Yankees pitcher who threw a perfect game in the 1956 World Series: 2 wds. |
| 42% | DONLARSEN | 9 | Yankees pitcher who pitched a perfect game in the World Series on 10/8/56: 2 wds. |
| 41% | DAVIDCONE | 9 | Yankees pitcher who pitched a perfect game on 7/18/99, a day honoring 23-Down at Yankee Stadium: 2 wds. |
| 40% | THURMANMUNSON | 13 | Yankees catcher who was a 7-time All-Star in the 1970s: 2 wds. |
| 39% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Quotable Yankees catcher posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama: 2 wds. |
| 34% | BILLYMARTIN | 11 | Yankees manager who asked umpires to check 13-Across's bat for excessive pine tar: 2 wds. |
| 34% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Catcher who famously said "It ain't over till it's over": 2 wds. |
| 33% | JASONROBARDS | 12 | Actor who played 15-Across in the 1967 film "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre": 2 wds. |
| 33% | SALDURANTE | 10 | Fan who caught 42-Across's record-breaking 61st home run in 1961 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | MORGANFREEMAN | 13 | Actor who portrayed 15-Across in the 2009 film "Invictus": 2 wds. |
| 32% | BABERUTH | 8 | 15-Across great known as the "Sultan of Swat" who was honored with a "Day" at Yankee Stadium on April 27, 1947 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | RUSSIANDOLL | 11 | Emmy-nominated Netflix series starring 15-Across as a software engineer named Nadia who is caught in a time loop (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ETHANCOEN | 9 | "Fargo" director who directed 15-Across without his brother Joel: 2 wds. |
| 30% | AARONJUDGE | 10 | Yankees slugger who broke 17-Across's single-season home run record with 62 home runs in 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | JUICEWRLD | 9 | "Lucid Dreams" rapper who's from 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 30% | LOUGEHRIG | 9 | Yankee who played a record 2,130 consecutive games |
| 30% | CLIMATECHANGE | 13 | 15-Across's environmental cause: 2 wds. |
| 30% | ELIZABETHBANKS | 14 | "The Hunger Games" actress who voices Pam Mallard in 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 30% | JOETORRE | 8 | Yankees manager who won six pennants and four World Series: 2 wds. |
| 30% | JOETORRE | 8 | Yankees manager who was ejected 66 times in his career: 2 wds. |
| 30% | MARIANORIVERA | 13 | Longtime Yankees closer who's retiring at the end of the 2013 season: 2 wds. |
| 29% | CHRISSIEHYNDE | 13 | 15-Across singer/songwriter who co-founded 44-Across in 1978 (2 wds.) |
| 29% | LUKECOMBS | 9 | 15-Across and 33-Across singer who won the 2019 Country Music Association's New Artist of the Year Award (2 wds.) |
| 29% | ELMERFUDD | 9 | "Looney Tunes" cartoon hunter who calls 15-Across "wascally wabbit": 2 wds. |
| 29% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Yankees catcher (1946-1963) whose jersey #8 was retired: 2 wds. |
| 29% | THREESISTERS | 12 | Novel by 15-Across about siblings who survived Auschwitz (2 wds.) |