| 100% | SIXTIMEWINNER | 13 | Unique claim of the U.S. Open player whose name is hidden in 34-Across |
| 40% | TOBIN | 5 | Heath who was named U.S. Soccer Player of the Year in 2016 |
| 40% | LEIGH | 5 | Co-star of the film whose title is hidden sequentially in 20-, 34-, 41- and 52-Across |
| 39% | SEATTLE | 7 | City whose skyline is drawn in the opening of 43-Across |
| 38% | EMU | 3 | Bird whose name is also the initials of a school in Ypsilanti |
| 38% | ZYZZYVA | 7 | Tropical insect whose name is the last word in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary |
| 38% | ROYEMERSON | 10 | Australian tennis player whose record of six Australian Open wins was tied by 32-Across in 2016: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ISR | 3 | U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of its name: Abbr. |
| 37% | APE | 3 | Primate whose name is hidden in "tape" |
| 37% | OREO | 4 | Cookie whose name is hidden in "choreography" |
| 37% | NAOMI | 5 | Girma who was the U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year in 2023 |
| 37% | ELS | 3 | Ernie ___, golfer whose name is hidden in "Helsinki" |
| 37% | VERA | 4 | ___ Zvonareva, tennis player who was the co-winner of Women's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 37% | THIEM | 5 | Dominic ___, Austrian tennis player who was the winner of Men's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 37% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Osaka, Japanese tennis player who was the winner of Women's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 37% | AMBULANCE | 9 | Emergency vehicle whose name may be written across the hood in mirror writing |
| 36% | MATE | 4 | ___ Pavic, Croatian tennis player who was the co-winner of Men's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 36% | LAURA | 5 | ___ Siegemund, German tennis player who was the co-winner of Women's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 36% | SOARES | 6 | Bruno ___, Brazilian tennis player who was the co-winner of Men's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 36% | ELK | 3 | — Mountains, range of the Rockies in Colorado, US, whose highest point is Castle Peak |
| 36% | ARI | 3 | NPR host Shapiro whose name is hidden in "Costa Rica" |
| 36% | TAOS | 4 | Ski resort whose name is an anagram of 34-Across |
| 36% | LPGATOUR | 8 | The U.S. Women's Open is part of it |
| 35% | POE | 3 | "Tamarlane and Other Poems" author, whose name is hidden in this clue |
| 35% | RONSTADT | 8 | Linda whose "Long, Long Time" is featured in the Last of Us episode of the same name |
| 35% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 35% | CASPERRUUD | 10 | Norwegian tennis player whose third second-place finish at a major tournament was as runner-up to 31-Across in the 2023 French Open (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ARTHURASHE | 10 | Winner of the first US Open Men's Singles championship (1968), for whom the largest stadium at the USTA National Tennis Center is named (2 wds.) |
| 35% | OHIO | 4 | Home of the U.S.'s largest cities whose names start with X and Z |
| 35% | CAMELOT | 7 | Castle whose name is repeatedly rhymed with “Shalott,” in “The Lady of Shalott” |