| 100% | THENBA | 6 | What Grizzlies and Timberwolves play in |
| 46% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 46% | NBA | 3 | Org. with Grizzlies and Timberwolves |
| 46% | NBA | 3 | Org. for Grizzlies and Timberwolves |
| 45% | NBA | 3 | League with Grizzlies and Timberwolves: Abbr. |
| 43% | SETLIST | 7 | Itemized concert songs in playing order ... and what all the words in answers to starred clues comprise |
| 43% | MUD | 3 | What hogs and hippos wallow in |
| 43% | SLOWMOTION | 10 | What some plays are shown in |
| 43% | KILTS | 5 | What bagpipes are often played in |
| 42% | BALLGAMES | 9 | What cubs and mets play |
| 41% | SOFTBALL | 8 | Sport played in slowpitch and fastpitch |
| 40% | LALIGA | 6 | What Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona play in |
| 40% | ARPEGGIOS | 9 | Broken chords played in rising and falling order |
| 40% | PACTEN | 6 | Wildcats and Cougars play in it |
| 40% | OTHELLO | 7 | Play set in Venice and Cyprus |
| 40% | GEAREDUP | 8 | In uniform and ready to play |
| 40% | ETSEQ | 5 | And what follows, in legal memos |
| 40% | AIR | 3 | What we breathe in and out |
| 40% | AIR | 3 | What you breathe in and out |
| 39% | CHELSEA | 7 | Premier League powerhouse that plays in blue and white |
| 39% | CDT | 3 | What the Cubs play games in: Abbr. |
| 39% | CARDS | 5 | What bridge and poker are played with |
| 39% | THEYALSOSERVE | 13 | What standers and waiters do in tennis? |
| 39% | ELOPE | 5 | What Othello and Desdemona do in "Othello" |
| 39% | TIGER | 5 | What Hobbes is, in "Calvin and Hobbes" |
| 39% | TEETH | 5 | What humans and saws have in common |
| 39% | WATERLEVEL | 10 | What rises and falls in a lake |
| 39% | CALCIUM | 7 | What milk and yogurt are rich in |
| 39% | SONOF | 5 | What "ibn" and "ben" mean, in names |
| 39% | COED | 4 | What Princeton and Yale became in 1969 |