| 100% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Six-point score in American football made by being in possession of the ball in the opposing team's end zone |
| 32% | ONSIDE | 6 | ___ kick (unconventional attempt to maintain possession of the ball in football) |
| 32% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Football play where a team advances the ball into the opponent's end zone |
| 31% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | In American football, scoring six points |
| 31% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Six-point score in American football |
| 30% | TRY | 3 | Score worth five points in rugby union resulting from the grounding of the ball in the opponents' in-goal area |
| 30% | STRONGSIDE | 10 | Where the tight end is positioned in American football |
| 29% | GOOGLE | 6 | American tech giant made popular by their search engine, and is one of the world's biggest brands |
| 29% | PNC | 3 | American financial services provider, that is the fifth-largest bank in the U.S., by number of branches |
| 29% | ALECBALDWIN | 11 | Actor who made a cameo in "Glengarry Glen Ross" by playing the role of Blake, the guy who is sent to motivate the sales team: 2 wds. |
| 29% | SASHA | 5 | ___ Banks, American professional wrestler who was named Wrestler of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2020 |
| 29% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Making it to the end zone with ball in hand |
| 29% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | This is worth six points in American football |
| 29% | ENDZONE | 7 | In American football, the area behind the goals that a ball must cross for a touchdown to be awarded |
| 28% | LAW | 3 | Betteridge’s ___ of headlines (“Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’ ”) |
| 28% | ALY | 3 | American gymnast ___ Raisman who was the captain of the artistic gymnastics team in 2012 and 2016 Olympics |
| 28% | TWINE | 5 | The ball in Cawker City, KS, which weighs over 20,000 lb., is made of this material |
| 28% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 28% | ALAN | 4 | ___ Page, former professional American football player turned lawyer who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2018 |
| 28% | WENTOUTOFBOUNDS | 15 | Forfeited possession of the ball, in hoops |
| 27% | LUCY | 4 | "___ in the Sky with Diamonds," 1967 song by The Beatles which was inspired by a drawing that Lennon's son made of his classmate |
| 27% | KERRI | 5 | Olympic gymnast Strug who was part of the gold-winning American team in 1996 |
| 27% | IRAHAYES | 8 | Native American who was one of the six flag-raisers on Iwo Jima in WWII |
| 27% | ROSELAVELLE | 11 | Midfielder for the USWNT who won the Bronze Ball award and scored one of the two goals in the team's World Cup final game victory over 17-Across (2 wds.) |
| 27% | PARR | 4 | Catherine who is one of the six in Broadway's "Six" |
| 27% | GREAT | 5 | "___ Balls of Fire," 1957 song by Jerry Lee Lewis that was featured in the film "Top Gun" |
| 27% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 27% | BROOKLYN | 8 | Bernie Sanders was captain of the track team at James Madison H. S. in this NY borough |
| 26% | ENDZONE | 7 | Area behind the goals in American football that a ball must cross for a touchdown to be awarded |
| 26% | WILT | 4 | ___ Chamberlain, American basketball player who is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game |