| 100% | STOW | 4 | The winning team was be___ed a trophy |
| 62% | DEFAULT | 7 | What a game is won by when the other team forfeits |
| 58% | VINCELOMBARDI | 13 | Annual "Super Bowl" trophy named after a Green Bay Packers coach which is awarded to the NFL's championship-winning team: 2 wds. |
| 53% | UNDERDOGS | 9 | The teams that are considered least likely to win |
| 52% | BILL | 4 | NBA Hall of Famer ___ Russell, who was the leader of a Boston Celtics team that won 11 titles from 1957-1969 |
| 50% | ASTARISBORNE | 12 | Photo caption for the winning team's M.V.P. being carried off the field? |
| 50% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Name on a trophy the contest answer helped to win twice |
| 49% | OILERS | 6 | Team that won the first A.F.L. championship |
| 49% | KNELT | 5 | Was in the front row of a team photo, say |
| 49% | KNEEL | 5 | Be in the front row in a team photo, say |
| 48% | INDIAN | 6 | ← Member of the only team to win this many games in a season |
| 48% | COWBOYS | 7 | Dallas ___, the team which has been playing a match on every Thanksgiving Day |
| 48% | POLO | 4 | Water ___, team sport played in the water that is a popular summer activity |
| 48% | RECEIVE | 7 | "The team will ___ a grand welcome." |
| 47% | KANSAS | 6 | ___ Jayhawks men's basketball team which is a part of the NCAA Division I |
| 47% | UTAH | 4 | ___ Utes men's basketball team which is a part of the NCAA Division I |
| 47% | BYOB | 4 | Letters on a party invitation indicating that booze won't be provided by the host |
| 47% | WALT | 4 | I am considered a pioneer of the animation industry and I have won 22 Oscars |
| 46% | DEAN | 4 | ___ Martin, famed singer and actor who was a part of the comedy team Martin and Lewis |
| 46% | SHERYLSWOOPES | 13 | She was the first player signed by a WNBA team: 2 wds. |
| 46% | KEN | 3 | Jennings who was a team captain in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games |
| 46% | ANG | 3 | Lee who was the first Asian to win a best-director Oscar |
| 45% | SERIES | 6 | When two or more games are played between the same teams in baseball it is called a ____ |
| 45% | TEBOW | 5 | Former quarterback Tim who was the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy |
| 45% | DWAYNE | 6 | Actor Johnson who won a national championship on the 1991 Miami Hurricanes team |
| 45% | MARK | 4 | "NCIS" actor Harmon who was a quarterback for the UCLA Bruins football team |
| 45% | POITIER | 7 | Sidney who was the first African-American to win a Best Actor Oscar |
| 45% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 45% | MALALA | 6 | “I Am ___” (2013 autobiography whose author won a Nobel Prize the following year) |
| 45% | GRANDSLAMHOMERUN | 16 | What will cause a walk-off win in the situation described by the answers to the starred clues |