| 100% | REDS | 4 | Team that has retired the numbers of Johnny Bench and Pete Rose |
| 48% | METS | 4 | Team that retired the numbers of Gil Hodges and Mike Piazza |
| 46% | METS | 4 | Baseball team that retired the numbers of Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza |
| 46% | SUNS | 4 | NBA team that retired the numbers of Steve Nash and Charles Barkley |
| 40% | REDS | 4 | Team that retired Johnny Bench's #5 and Barry Larkin's #11 |
| 39% | THREE | 5 | Number of children that 12-Across and 38-Across have (Chris is the middle child) |
| 37% | PITTSBURGH | 10 | ___ Steelers, the team that has won the most number of Super Bowls in history |
| 35% | TAMPABAY | 8 | Team that has a tankful of rays in the back of its ballpark |
| 35% | YANKEES | 7 | The New York ___, MLB team that has won the most number of World Series championships with 27 wins |
| 34% | REDS | 4 | Team that will retire Pete Rose's #14 next weekend |
| 34% | ISOTONES | 8 | Atoms that have the same number of neutrons |
| 33% | ECRU | 4 | Hue that has the ISCC-NBS color number of 89 |
| 33% | BOISE | 5 | State capital that has the same number of letters as its state |
| 32% | HAWKS | 5 | Atlanta ___, NBA team that has won 170 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | CELTICS | 7 | Boston ___, NBA team that has won 407 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | PISTONS | 7 | Detroit ___, NBA team that has won 189 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | TIDAL | 5 | Having to do with the rise and fall of the sea |
| 32% | KNICKS | 6 | New York ___, NBA team that has won 193 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | LAKERS | 6 | Los Angeles ___, NBA team that has won 466 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | SPURS | 5 | San Antonio ___, NBA team that has won 222 games in the playoffs over the course of their history |
| 32% | METS | 4 | MLB team that had the worst regular-season record of any team to play in the World Series |
| 31% | ISOTONIC | 8 | Word applied to sports drinks that have similar concentrations of salt and sugar as the human body |
| 31% | CODE | 4 | Zip ___, address identification number that the Empire State Building has its own of |
| 30% | TEN | 3 | The number of toes most people have |
| 30% | LIMO | 4 | Car that might have ice buckets and bottles of champagne in the back seat |
| 30% | BED | 3 | "Love is not a ___ of roses," phrase that describes the ups and downs of love |
| 30% | CSI | 3 | Show that had episodes titled "Tressed to Kill" and "Dead of the Class" |
| 30% | GIANTS | 6 | New York baseball team that sent future Hall of Famers Bill Terry and Carl Hubbell to the first 28-Across |
| 30% | RETINA | 6 | Part of the eye that has rods and cones |
| 29% | ONE | 3 | Number that's the title of hit songs by Metallica and U2 |