| 100% | PUCK | 4 | What a hockey player tries to shoot into the goal |
| 73% | PUCK | 4 | What hockey players try to shoot into the net |
| 41% | SPLASH | 6 | What a diver tries to minimize when hitting the water |
| 40% | GOAL | 4 | What a team scores when a hockey puck goes into the net |
| 39% | PAW | 3 | What a kitty may dip into a water bowl to taste the water |
| 39% | STICK | 5 | What a hockey player holds |
| 38% | AMA | 3 | The ___teur football player's goal was to become a professional |
| 38% | TIDDLYWINKS | 11 | Game in which players try to flick plastic discs into a cup by pressing on them with a squidger |
| 38% | SKATE | 5 | What a hockey player wears on his foot |
| 37% | HOCKEY | 6 | Sport played with a puck where teams try to put it into the other team's goal |
| 37% | ARMHOLE | 7 | What you might accidentally try to put your head through when getting into a sweater |
| 37% | HAT | 3 | ___ trick (three hockey goals scored by the same player in a single game) |
| 36% | RAP | 3 | What a suspect tries to beat, with "the" |
| 36% | NTAMACK | 7 | Emile —, France rugby union wing; first player to score a try in the Heineken Cup |
| 35% | ROLE | 4 | What a casting director tries to fill |
| 35% | QUICKBUCK | 9 | What a day trader tries to turn |
| 35% | BAR | 3 | What a pole vaulter tries to clear |
| 35% | INTENT | 6 | What a prosecutor may try to prove |
| 35% | DEFENSEMAN | 10 | Hockey player near the goal |
| 35% | NTAMACK | 7 | Emile —, former France rugby union wing; first player to score a try in the Heineken Cup |
| 35% | ADVANCEDDEGREES | 15 | Post-college goals, e.g., or a hint to what the starred answers are progressively "awarded" |
| 35% | SHOOT | 5 | Try to score a goal |
| 35% | ROSIN | 5 | What a violin player applies to a bow |
| 35% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 35% | NTAMACK | 7 | Emile —, France and Toulouse rugby union wing; first player to score a try in the Heineken Cup |
| 35% | CASE | 4 | What a sleuth tries to close |
| 35% | CIVICPRIDE | 10 | What a mayor tries to instill |
| 35% | SCENARIO | 8 | What a detective tries to reconstruct |
| 35% | ODOR | 4 | What a deodorant tries to fight |
| 35% | DEAL | 4 | What a negotiator tries to arrange |