| 100% | OUTFIELD | 8 | Right, center, and left field in baseball |
| 53% | OFS | 3 | They're in left, right, and center, in one sense (abbr.) |
| 48% | ENOS | 4 | Right fielder Slaughter in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 47% | OTT | 3 | Baseball Hall-of-Famer who batted left and threw right |
| 47% | TWIX | 4 | Chocolate bar that comes in Left and Right |
| 46% | TACKLESHOP | 10 | Place catering to the left and right of center? |
| 43% | WHY | 3 | Left fielder in a comedy routine |
| 42% | GUARD | 5 | There's one right and left of center |
| 42% | SHORTSTOP | 9 | Fielding position in baseball to the left of second base viewed from the home plate |
| 41% | DRIVERSSIDE | 11 | It's on the left in the U.S. and the right in the U.K. |
| 41% | TROUT | 5 | Mike ___, baseball center fielder who signed a 12-year contract worth $426.5 million in 2019 |
| 40% | LEG | 3 | In cricket, the side of the field to the left of a right-handed batsman as he faces the bowler |
| 40% | SAVE | 4 | Statistic in baseball and hockey |
| 40% | STRIKE | 6 | Term in baseball and bowling |
| 40% | STEALS | 6 | Stats in baseball and basketball |
| 40% | OUT | 3 | Call in baseball and tennis |
| 40% | SIDES | 5 | Right and left |
| 39% | RAINES | 6 | Left fielder Tim in the Hall of Fame |
| 39% | GAP | 3 | Area between center and right, say |
| 39% | BATS | 4 | Clubs used in baseball and cricket |
| 39% | AROD | 4 | Nickname in baseball and gossip columns |
| 39% | BATS | 4 | Items used in baseball and cricket |
| 39% | BAT | 3 | Item used in baseball and cricket |
| 39% | ACE | 3 | Term in baseball, golf and tennis |
| 39% | ONETWO | 6 | Left and right, maybe |
| 39% | TURNSTYLES | 10 | Left, right and hairpin? |
| 39% | DIAMOND | 7 | Baseball field, in part |
| 39% | TURNS | 5 | Lefts, rights and uies |
| 39% | CHESHIRECAT | 11 | Character whose incorporeal grin prompted the quote in the shaded spaces (reading upper and then lower arcs, left to right) |
| 39% | IDIOM | 5 | Figure of speech ... and a synonym of the puzzle's alternate title, spelled left to right in the circled squares |