| 100% | FIELDHOCKEY | 11 | Sport played on the first word of its name |
| 100% | TABLETENNIS | 11 | Sport played on the first word of its name |
| 86% | ARENAFOOTBALL | 13 | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| 52% | MATT | 4 | First name of the actor who played Joey on "Friends" |
| 51% | GINA | 4 | First name of the actress who plays Jane on "Jane the Virgin" |
| 51% | EDIE | 4 | First name of the actress who plays Tommy on CBS's "Tommy" |
| 50% | KIM | 3 | First name of the lawyer played by Rhea Seehorn on "Better Call Saul" |
| 47% | EDIE | 4 | First name of the actress who played Carmela on "The Sopranos" |
| 47% | REO | 3 | 1976 rock album, or the first word of the band that made it |
| 46% | NEE | 3 | Word on the first line of Mirren's Wikipedia article |
| 46% | NEW | 3 | First word in the names of four states |
| 46% | ATO | 3 | Words on the first of a set, perhaps |
| 46% | ORLANDO | 7 | The first name of the actor who played Legolas |
| 46% | SAN | 3 | First word in the names of many California cities |
| 45% | ABBA | 4 | Swedish pop band that has the first letter of each member on its name |
| 45% | LITE | 4 | First word in the rhyming name of a peg toy |
| 45% | PLANETEARTH | 11 | Duran Duran single whose title contains the first word of the name of the "September" band (2 wds.) |
| 44% | MAC | 3 | The name of the character played by Rob McElhenney on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" |
| 44% | RAE | 3 | First word in the name of the "Black Beatles" hip-hop duo |
| 44% | PEOPLEMAGAZINE | 14 | Mia Farrow was on the cover of its first issue |
| 44% | OTIS | 4 | "Sitting on the dock of the Bay" singer, first name |
| 44% | EVEL | 4 | First name of the "father of extreme sports" |
| 44% | STAN | 4 | First name of the dad on "American Dad!" |
| 44% | MONEYBALL | 9 | Brad Pitt's 2011 sports drama film based on a Michael Lewis novel of the same name in which 20a plays his ex-wife |
| 44% | LOS | 3 | First word in the name of the U.S.'s most populous county |
| 44% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 43% | RENE | 4 | Name on the cover of Meditations on First Philosophy |
| 43% | ELSIE | 5 | First name of the head housekeeper on "Downton Abbey" |
| 43% | UPTON | 5 | First name on the cover of Oil! |
| 43% | DOUBLE | 6 | It can precede the first words of 17-, 28-, 35-, 47- and 61-Across |