| 100% | TRIFECTA | 8 | Track wager in which you need to guess the first three finishers in order |
| 50% | TRIFECTA | 8 | Track wager where the bettor picks the first three finishers in order |
| 37% | FRENCH | 6 | Language in which you'll need to know how to pronounce two three-letter words |
| 36% | IONE | 4 | Girl's name in which the last three letters are equivalent to the first? |
| 36% | OLDMAID | 7 | Card game in which you try to avoid the spinster |
| 35% | EXACTA | 6 | Track bet picking the top two finishers in order |
| 34% | FISHORCUTBAIT | 13 | Line to the indecisive, and what you'll need to add in order to complete some lines in this puzzle |
| 34% | HIRE | 4 | You need to do this in order to fire |
| 33% | SHELL | 5 | Something you might hold to your ear in order to hear the first parts of 18-, 24-, 52- and 62-Across? |
| 33% | CHOCOLATE | 9 | Did you know? The Mayans were the first to make hot ___ (winter beverage), in which the heat came from chili peppers not temperature |
| 33% | TABOO | 5 | Guessing game in which you're not allowed to say certain words |
| 32% | MLB | 3 | Org. in which you'd hear the answers to starred clues |
| 31% | NUMBER | 6 | Phone ___ (Digits you need in order to call someone?) |
| 31% | EGGTOSS | 7 | Game in which the first player to crack loses? |
| 31% | IPO | 3 | Event in which a company first allows the general public to buy its stock: Abbr. |
| 31% | FROGS | 5 | The —, play by Aristophanes in which Dionysus descends to Hades in order to bring back Euripides |
| 30% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
| 30% | CAPSULE | 7 | *Time ___, container in which you store precious things from the present to be found in the future |
| 30% | UTA | 3 | ___ Pippig, first woman to win the Boston Marathon three times in a row |
| 30% | SCOTS | 5 | Language in which the first four cardinal numbers are ane, twa, three and fower |
| 30% | GAB | 3 | Mad ___, word-based board game in which the players have to guess misheard sentences |
| 30% | CERBERUS | 8 | Three-headed dog in Greek mythology which guarded the entrance to Hades |
| 29% | UNO | 3 | Game in which the object is to be the first player to score 500 points |
| 29% | ILLINOIS | 8 | Springfield's state which became the first state to decriminalize same-sex relations in 1962 |
| 29% | KICK | 4 | ___ the Can, kids' game in which you go to "jail" if you're late to the can, often played in 17a |
| 29% | LEFTOFCENTER | 12 | Somewhat liberal, or where you might find the first words in the answers to starred clues |
| 29% | ESE | 3 | Dir. in which you're taking off from JFK if you're going to fly right over the Inwood Country Club |
| 29% | TOP | 3 | You're one amongst very few if you can make it to the ___ three players in the DTC leaderboard! |
| 29% | ORALEXAM | 8 | Assessment during which you need to speak up |
| 29% | XXXXX | 5 | Largish combo (and a hint to the number of letters in each country that you'll need) |