| 100% | LED | 3 | The general ___ his troops into battle and won against all odds! |
| 34% | TRIUMPH | 7 | Win against the odds |
| 33% | CHEATEDDEATH | 12 | Survived against all odds / Possible fate of the universe |
| 33% | CRAZY | 5 | With 44-Across, Oglala Lakota leader who helped win the Battle of the Little Bighorn against General Custer |
| 31% | NAPOLEON | 8 | General who won the Battle of Austerlitz |
| 30% | WATERLOO | 8 | Battle won by the UK against the Napoleonic army |
| 30% | ARK | 3 | ''Come thou and all thy house into the __'' |
| 29% | SOMEHOW | 7 | Against all odds |
| 29% | TORTOISE | 8 | Slow and steady won him the race against the hare |
| 28% | ODDS | 4 | "He won against all ___" |
| 27% | EVENS | 5 | They're against all odds |
| 27% | FOSSE | 5 | Director Bob who won a Tony, Oscar and Emmy all in the same year |
| 27% | ENTRANTRANT | 11 | "I should've won! I was robbed! It's all rigged!" and the like? |
| 27% | SURVIVING | 9 | Continuing to live against all odds |
| 27% | ODDS | 4 | "He managed to win against all ___!" |
| 27% | PHILCOLLINS | 11 | "Against All Odds" singer who retired in 2011 and unretired in 2015: 2 wds. |
| 26% | DEWIBEBB | 8 | Rugby union wing who scored the winning try on his 1959 Wales Test debut against England |
| 26% | ROBIN | 5 | Bird that "rocks in the treetops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and singin' his song" |
| 26% | BEBB | 4 | Dewi —, rugby union wing who scored the winning try on his 1959 Wales Test debut against England |
| 26% | APHRODITE | 9 | Goddess born out of foam, after Uranus was castrated and his genitals were thrown into the sea |
| 26% | SABRINAIONESCU | 14 | New York Liberty guard and 2022 All-Star who won the 2022 WNBA Skills Challenge (2 wds.) |
| 25% | SANDYKOUFAX | 11 | Left-handed pitcher who won his fourth and final World Series with the Dodgers in 1965: 2 wds. |
| 25% | CAPRA | 5 | Director of the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay) |
| 25% | GOLDENSLAM | 10 | 42-Across's amazing 1988 feat (singles wins at the Olympics and all four tennis majors) (2 wds.) |
| 25% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | "His posterior goes all the way back into the easy chair - ___!" |
| 25% | PRINCEFIELDER | 13 | Current Tigers player who won the Home Run Derby at the 2009 and 2012 All-Star Games: 2 wds. |
| 25% | COUNTRYFOROLD | 13 | "No ___ Men," a movie in which Javier Bardem starred in and won the Best Actor Award at the Oscars for his performance: 3 wds. |
| 25% | SWEPT | 5 | Won all the races |
| 25% | SWEPT | 5 | Won all the games |
| 25% | ANTIWAR | 7 | Against battles and conflicts |