| 100% | ASTRODOME | 9 | Stadium whose first homer was hit by Mickey Mantle in an exhibition game in 1965 |
| 56% | ASTRODOME | 9 | Stadium whose first home run was hit by Mickey Mantle |
| 34% | HBO | 3 | Pay-TV channel whose first-ever broadcast, in 1972, was an NHL game |
| 33% | TITAN | 5 | NFL player whose home games are in Nashville's Nissan Stadium |
| 30% | TOMBRAIDER | 10 | Game whose heroine was played by Angelina Jolie in a 2001 film |
| 30% | MIGHTYDUCKS | 11 | NHL team whose first game was played October 8, 1993 (and the team featured in the Disney films that had cameos by the answers to the starred clues) (2 wds.) |
| 30% | RAP | 3 | Music genre whose first mainstream hit was by the Sugarhill Gang |
| 30% | CARL | 4 | Nassib who was the first openly gay player in an NFL game |
| 30% | STL | 3 | Mo. city whose MLS team will play its first game in 2023 |
| 29% | ABBA | 4 | Band whose first hit in the US was "Waterloo" |
| 29% | MOTLEYCRUE | 10 | 1980s hair band whose first Top 20 hit was "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | SIA | 3 | Australian whose first big hit in the US was "Chandelier" |
| 29% | TARA | 4 | Fictional home that was won in an all-night poker game |
| 29% | MAURICESTOKES | 13 | 1950s NBA player for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals whose career was ended by an in-game head injury: 2 wds. |
| 28% | RUBEGO/IDLDBERG | 15 | Only person whose first and last name together is listed as an adjective in Merriam-Webster |
| 28% | NED | 3 | Only Springfield resident whose house is destroyed by a hurricane, in an episode of The Simpsons |
| 28% | GEHRIG | 6 | First baseman Lou whose record of consecutive games was broken by Cal Ripken Jr. |
| 28% | UGGBOOTS | 8 | Footwear whose prototypes were first worn by Australian surfers in the 1960s |
| 28% | LETSHANGON | 10 | 1965 Four Seasons hit whose opening lyric is "There ain't no good in our goodby-in'" |
| 28% | OLIVA | 5 | 1964, 1965, and 1971 AL batting champ Tony whose #6 was retired by the Twins in 1991 |
| 28% | ETNA | 4 | Mountain whose volcanic eruption was first recorded by Diodorus Siculus in 425 BC |
| 28% | ANGEL | 5 | Baseball player whose home games are played in Anaheim |
| 28% | ICHIRO | 6 | First player to hit an inside-the-park home run during an All-Star Game, 2007 |
| 28% | NEVER | 5 | "___ Be the Same," hit song by Camila Cabello that won an iHeartRadio award in 2019 |
| 28% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Vehicle whose sound is imitated by the first three Across entries in this puzzle |
| 28% | AETNA | 5 | Insurance company in the Fortune 100 whose name was inspired by an Italian volcano |
| 27% | BLUES | 5 | Hockey team whose home games are played in St. Louis |
| 27% | BLUES | 5 | NHL team whose home games are played in St. Louis |
| 27% | BARBARAANN | 10 | 1965 Beach Boys hit that was first recorded by the Regents: 2 wds. |