| 100% | CUE | 3 | The stick used to hit balls in pool |
| 65% | BAT | 3 | Used to hit the ball in baseball |
| 56% | CUES | 4 | Wooden sticks used to hit billiard balls |
| 48% | CUE | 3 | Long tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 48% | CUE | 3 | Long, tapered rod used to strike a ball in the game of snooker |
| 46% | CUE | 3 | Stick used to play pool |
| 46% | GLOW | 4 | ___ stick, festival object that uses a chemiluminescent reaction to shine in the dark |
| 44% | DRIBBLING | 9 | Using hands to move the ball in basketball |
| 44% | CUES | 4 | Wooden sticks used to shoot pool |
| 43% | DRUMSTICK | 9 | Wooden piece used to hit the batter head |
| 43% | CUE | 3 | Stick used in a pool hall |
| 43% | PAW | 3 | What a boxer uses to hit the ground? |
| 43% | CUE | 3 | Stick used in pool or snooker |
| 43% | JUGGLE | 6 | To keep balls in the air |
| 42% | WERE | 4 | Used to be, in the plural |
| 42% | RACKET | 6 | Use it to hit balls |
| 42% | SWUNG | 5 | Tried to hit the ball |
| 42% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | RACK | 4 | Triangle used to arrange pool balls |
| 42% | FIREDAT | 7 | Tried to hit in paint ball |
| 42% | STRANDRUNNERS | 13 | Fail to hit in the clutch |
| 41% | BATS | 4 | Baseball ___, equipment used to strike the balls |
| 41% | CUES | 4 | Sticks that hit pool balls |
| 41% | COMEBACKER | 10 | Ball hit to the pitcher |
| 41% | SCREW | 5 | Billiards shot in which the cue ball is hit below its centre causing it to recoil after hitting the object ball |
| 41% | RACK | 4 | Thing used to arrange pool balls before breaking |
| 40% | WRINKLES | 8 | Botox is used to smooth __ in the face |
| 40% | EXMEMBER | 8 | One who used to be in the club |
| 40% | BAT | 3 | At ___ (slugger's chance to hit the ball) |
| 40% | RADIATOR | 8 | Item used to cool the engine in a car |