100% | BATTERUP | 8 | Umpire's call to play ball: 2 wds. |
62% | BATTERUP | 8 | Umpire's "Let's play ball!" shout: 2 wds. |
59% | BATTERUP | 8 | Umpire's call to someone in the on-deck circle (2 wds.) |
48% | RECROOM | 7 | Place to play games: 2 wds. |
47% | HITIT | 5 | Bandleader's command to start playing: 2 wds. |
45% | TUNESUP | 7 | Gets ready to play a musical instrument: 2 wds. |
45% | EXTRALIFE | 9 | Another chance to play, in video games: 2 wds. |
45% | CUEUP | 5 | Get ready to play, as a CD track: 2 wds. |
44% | THINKOF | 7 | Call to mind (2 wds.) |
43% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | First Japanese-born position player to play Major League Baseball: 2 wds. |
43% | STEVIEWONDER | 12 | He sang "I Just Called to Say I Love You": 2 wds. |
42% | MATTSMITH | 9 | Eleventh actor to play the lead role in 15-Across (2010-2013): 2 wds. |
42% | DAVIDTENNANT | 12 | Tenth actor to play the lead role in 15-Across (2005-2010): 2 wds. |
42% | GEORGELAZENBY | 13 | Youngest actor to play 16-Across (2 wds.) |
42% | GEAREDUP | 8 | In uniform and ready to play (2 wds.) |
41% | DEIONSANDERS | 12 | Only person to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series: 2 wds. |
41% | PETERCAPALDI | 12 | Twelfth actor to play the lead role in 15-Across, starting in 2013: 2 wds. |
41% | DARYLHANNAH | 11 | "Splash" actress who wore an eyepatch to play Elle Driver in "Kill Bill": 2 wds. |
41% | DAMIANLEWIS | 11 | English actor who spoke with an American accent to play Nicholas Brody on "Homeland": 2 wds. |
40% | SAFE | 4 | Umpire's call that a base runner wants to hear |
40% | LINUSROACHE | 11 | English actor who spoke with an American accent to play Michael Cutter on "Law & Order": 2 wds. |
40% | RENEEZELLWEGER | 14 | Actress who returns to play the title character in "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy": 2 wds. |
40% | LIONELMESSI | 11 | Argentine soccer star who left a French club to play for Inter Miami in 2023: 2 wds. |
40% | DIAMOND | 7 | Place to play ball |
40% | KURTRUSSELL | 11 | "Deepwater Horizon" actor who wore an eyepatch to play Snake Plissken in "Escape From New York": 2 wds. |
40% | CHARLIEHUNNAM | 13 | English actor who spoke with an American accent to play Jax Teller on "Sons of Anarchy": 2 wds. |
40% | WAYNEROONEY | 11 | English soccer star who left an English club to play for D.C. United in 2018: 2 wds. |
40% | DAVIDBECKHAM | 12 | English soccer star who left a Spanish club to play for the LA Galaxy in 2007: 2 wds. |
40% | STEVIEWONDER | 12 | Singer who won the Oscar for Best Original Song, "Just Called to Say I Love You": 2 wds. |
39% | JOHNGOODMAN | 11 | Actor returning to play Dan Conner on "Roseanne" (2 wds.) |