| 100% | PASS | 4 | Third-and-long play, usually |
| 68% | PUNT | 4 | Result of a sack on third and long, maybe |
| 63% | TENNIS | 6 | Game played usually with raquets and a yellow ball |
| 61% | PASS | 4 | Usual play on third-and-long |
| 55% | BILLIARDS | 9 | Game played with a long stick and balls on a table |
| 55% | POLO | 4 | Game played on horseback with a long mallet and a ball |
| 54% | SAL | 3 | Third baseman Bando who played for the A's in the 1960s and 1970s |
| 54% | PREV | 4 | The third button in media players, besides Play/Pause and Next: Abbr. |
| 54% | ODER | 4 | Poland's third longest river (461 mi.) after the Vistula and Warta |
| 53% | CLETE | 5 | Boyer who played third base for the Yankees in the '50s and '60s |
| 51% | OUTFIELD | 8 | Area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting first, second and third bases |
| 50% | TENNISCOURT | 11 | Playing area usually having one of the surfaces seen at the starts of 16-, 28- and 43-Across |
| 49% | VACATION | 8 | Relaxing, long break from work... and something you'll prepare for while playing through this crossword! |
| 49% | SIZES | 5 | Regular and long |
| 49% | RETIRED | 7 | No longer playing |
| 49% | URAL | 4 | Third-longest river in Europe, after the Volga and Danube |
| 48% | SHELLEY | 7 | ___ Long, actress who played Diane Chambers, the barmaid and Sam's love interest in the '80s sitcom "Cheers" |
| 48% | ANTONKARAS | 10 | Vienna-born zither player who composed and played the theme from 1949 film noir The Third Man |
| 48% | BIRD | 4 | "Free ___," 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd song that is their longest and goes over 14 minutes when played live |
| 48% | RANGY | 5 | Slender and long-limbed |
| 48% | NIAS | 4 | Actresses Vardalos and Long |
| 48% | RANGY | 5 | Tall and long-limbed |
| 48% | LANKY | 5 | Tall and long-limbed |
| 48% | EELS | 4 | Thin and long fishes |
| 48% | HAMLET | 6 | Shakespeare's longest play |
| 48% | RET | 3 | No longer playing: Abbr. |
| 47% | TAPE | 4 | ___ deck, old-timey music player where you could slide in a cassette and play tunes all day long |
| 47% | KARAS | 5 | Anton —, Vienna-born zither player who composed and played the theme from 1949 film noir The Third Man |
| 47% | WASA | 4 | Third and fourth word in many limericks |
| 47% | ONEACT | 6 | Like a short play, usually |