| 100% | DEFAULT | 7 | What a game is won by when the other team forfeits |
| 43% | DEFAULT | 7 | What some games are won by |
| 39% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 38% | GRANDSLAMHOMERUN | 16 | What will cause a walk-off win in the situation described by the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | TRIPLECROWN | 11 | What was won by the answer to each capitalized clue |
| 37% | SERIES | 6 | When two or more games are played between the same teams in baseball it is called a ____ |
| 37% | TAMPAPROOF | 10 | What a team hopes its front line is against the Buccaneers? |
| 36% | OKLAHOMASOONERS | 15 | What annual game have the ___ won more than any other team? |
| 36% | GOAL | 4 | What a team scores when a hockey puck goes into the net |
| 36% | PREGNANT | 8 | What a woman is when she has "a bun in the oven" |
| 36% | STOW | 4 | The winning team was be___ed a trophy |
| 35% | DEFENSE | 7 | Word chanted by fans when the other team has the ball |
| 35% | MEN | 3 | What was "raining" in a 1982 megahit by the Weather Girls |
| 35% | APRILFOOLSDAY | 13 | Date when the BBC claimed Big Ben would be replaced by a digital clock |
| 34% | AGAMEOFHORNETS | 14 | What’s being played when Charlotte’s NBA team is on the court? |
| 34% | ONE | 3 | The result when a number is divided by itself |
| 34% | ADIN | 4 | Situation before many a game is won |
| 34% | SHERYLSWOOPES | 13 | She was the first player signed by a WNBA team: 2 wds. |
| 34% | KEN | 3 | Jennings who was a team captain in the Jeopardy! All-Star Games |
| 34% | LACAGE | 6 | Informal title of a Tony-winning musical written by Harvey Fierstein that features the gay anthem "I Am What I Am" |
| 33% | RAREFORM | 8 | What an athlete may be in when they’re at the top of their game |
| 33% | PAPA | 4 | *"___ Was a Rollin' Stone," song covered by The Temptations that won a Grammy Award |
| 33% | YEN | 3 | What can be bought by the dozen for about a dime |
| 33% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 33% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 33% | INCHES | 6 | What some races are won by |
| 32% | ANOSE | 5 | What a horse may win by |
| 32% | OTELLO | 6 | Verdi opera that becomes the name of a board game when an "H" is inserted |
| 32% | STORY | 5 | “I’ve always known when I start a ___ what the last line is”: Amy Hempel |
| 32% | STOKE | 5 | ___ Mandeville Games, sporting event organized by Ludwig Guttmann that was a precursor to the Paralympics |