| 100% | NATIONALS | 9 | Washington baseball team for which Davey Johnson won the 2012 NL Manager of the Year award |
| 71% | PIRATES | 7 | Pittsburgh baseball team for which Clint Hurdle won the 2013 NL Manager of the Year award |
| 71% | ATHLETICS | 9 | Oakland baseball team for which Bob Melvin won the 2012 AL Manager of the Year award |
| 65% | INDIANS | 7 | Cleveland baseball team for which Terry Francona won the 2013 AL Manager of the Year award |
| 40% | MANU | 4 | English football club which won the inaugural Laureus team of the year in 2000, for short: 2 wds. |
| 35% | FOLKLORE | 8 | Album by Taylor Swift which won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2021 |
| 35% | GRAMMY | 6 | Song of the Year award won by Lorde for 36-Across |
| 35% | RILEY | 5 | NBA Coach of the Year Award winner for three different teams |
| 35% | THIS | 4 | "___ is America," hit song by Childish Gambino which won the Grammy for Record of the Year |
| 35% | NOVAK | 5 | ___ Djokovic, tennis player who won the Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsman of the Year in 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2019 |
| 34% | UTAH | 4 | Team for which Darrell Griffith was Rookie of the Year |
| 34% | HIGHERLOVE | 10 | 1986 #1 hit for 30-Across, which won the Grammy for Record of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 34% | IWANTED | 7 | "Everything ___," song by Billie Eilish which won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 33% | KATY | 4 | Singer ___ Perry who won Video of the Year Award for "Firework" at MTV Video Music Awards in 2011 |
| 33% | ADELE | 5 | Singer who won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year winner for "Hello" |
| 32% | JAMAL | 5 | Crawford who won the 2014 Sixth Man of the Year Award |
| 32% | ALOU | 4 | 1994 NL Manager of the Year Felipe |
| 32% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Singer-songwriter whose "1989" won 2016's Grammy Award for Album of the Year (2 wds.) |
| 32% | BABEL | 5 | 2012 Mumford & Sons album that won the 2013 Grammy for Album of the Year |
| 32% | REHAB | 5 | Amy Winehouse's song from "Back to Black" which won a Grammy for Song of the Year |
| 32% | TIMBERLAKE | 10 | Justin ___, singer who won Video of the Year for "Mirrors" at MTV Video Music Awards in 2013 |
| 32% | ARGO | 4 | 2012 espionage movie starring Ben Affleck which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay |
| 31% | WALT | 4 | ___ Disney, producer of "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day," for which he posthumously won an Academy Award |
| 31% | ADELE | 5 | "Someone Like You" singer who was 24 when she won the 2012 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| 31% | SHAWNMENDES | 11 | "Señorita" singer who won Canada's Juno Award for Pop Album of the Year in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 31% | DENIS | 5 | Novelist Johnson who won the National Book Award for Fiction for "Tree of Smoke" |
| 31% | ADELE | 5 | British singer who won the Album of the Year Grammy in 2012 for "21" |
| 31% | HELLO | 5 | 2015 song by Adele that won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year |
| 31% | TALENT | 6 | Billy __; won Juno's 2005 Group of the Year Award |
| 31% | ROLLING | 7 | "___ in the Deep," hit song by Adele that won 3 Grammy awards including Record of the Year in 2012 |