| 100% | LINE | 4 | What hitting the ... |
| 94% | UKE | 3 | What hits the HI notes? |
| 94% | SOLE | 4 | What hits the ground running? |
| 80% | CYCLE | 5 | What hitting the starts of 20-, 32-, 43- and 55-Across comprises, in baseball lingo |
| 80% | ICEBERG | 7 | What the Titanic hit |
| 77% | THUNDERSHOWERS | 14 | What Oklahoma City players hit after the game? |
| 76% | KARATECHOP | 10 | What's a big hit with the school board? |
| 75% | DAM | 3 | What did the fish say when it hit the wall? |
| 74% | SANK | 4 | What the Titanic did after hitting an iceberg |
| 73% | NET | 3 | What the ball is hit over in table tennis |
| 71% | STICK | 5 | What you hit the ball with during a hockey game? |
| 71% | BAT | 3 | What you hit the ball with during a baseball game? |
| 71% | CLUB | 4 | What you hit the ball with during a golf match? |
| 71% | HAND | 4 | What you hit the ball with during a volleyball match? |
| 70% | MEN | 3 | What "it's raining" in a classic dance hit by the Weather Girls |
| 70% | REARENDED | 9 | Hit from behind ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 70% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 70% | CUE | 3 | What you hit the white ball with during a billiards game? |
| 70% | DRAKE | 5 | Rapper with the 2018 #1 hit "Nice for What" |
| 69% | ARE | 3 | What "bist" means in the 1930s hit "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" |
| 67% | LINKS | 5 | What golfers hit, with "the" |
| 67% | PINK | 4 | Singer with the hits "Get the Party Started" and "So What" |
| 67% | BALLOFCONFUSION | 15 | 1970 Temptations hit subtitled "That's What the World Is Today" |
| 66% | LODE | 4 | Hit the mother ___ (what a miner wants to do) |
| 66% | EJECT | 5 | What a fighter pilot might do from the cockpit if the plane is hit |
| 66% | AMORE | 5 | What you feel "when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" |
| 65% | SAYSAYSAY | 9 | 1983 #1 hit with the lyric "Take, take, take what you need" |
| 65% | PAW | 3 | What a boxer uses to hit the ground? |
| 64% | IMREAL | 6 | Jennifer Lopez hit with the lyric "What you get is what you see" |
| 64% | HOMERUN | 7 | Big hit for the club members, and what might elicit the shaded words |