| 100% | NET | 3 | What the ball is hit over in table tennis |
| 56% | NET | 3 | What a tennis ball is hit over |
| 50% | LOB | 3 | Shot where a tennis ball is hit high in the air |
| 48% | TAPIOCA | 7 | What the balls in bubble tea are made from |
| 46% | NETS | 4 | What birdies are hit over, in badminton matches |
| 46% | RETURN | 6 | Hit the ball back after a serve in tennis |
| 45% | DROPSHOT | 8 | Table tennis play where ball hits close to the net |
| 45% | LOB | 3 | Ball hit deep into the court, in tennis |
| 45% | SEDATED | 7 | What the Ramones wanted to be in a 1978 hit song |
| 44% | NET | 3 | What a Ping-Pong ball is hit over |
| 43% | MPH | 3 | What the speed of a tennis serve or baseball pitch is measured in: Abbr. |
| 42% | TWINE | 5 | The ball in Cawker City, KS, which weighs over 20,000 lb., is made of this material |
| 41% | VOLLEYS | 7 | Tennis shots that are hit before the ball bounces |
| 40% | CLUBS | 5 | What golf balls are hit with |
| 40% | DROPSHOT | 8 | Tennis hit, where the ball lands just over the net |
| 40% | YOURCOURT | 9 | Idiom, the ball is in __ |
| 40% | WILDHORSES | 10 | 1971 Stones hit, or what can be found in the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | NET | 3 | What a volleyball is hit over |
| 39% | THEHILL | 7 | What the old are over |
| 39% | AFOG | 4 | What the dazed are in |
| 38% | EPICVERSE | 9 | What the Aeneid is written in |
| 38% | COMEDANCING | 11 | Kinks hit about the local palais, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 38% | SUN | 3 | What the planets are in orbit around |
| 37% | YOURCOURT | 9 | When it's your decision, the ball is in here |
| 37% | MOLD | 4 | What the blue stuff in blue cheese is |
| 37% | SEED | 4 | What the stone is in a stone fruit |
| 37% | GUARDINHOSE | 11 | What the security officer was doin' in womenswear? |
| 37% | HOMERULE | 8 | What the Faroe Islands were granted in 1948 |
| 37% | GEMS | 4 | What the Infinity Stones are, in "Avengers: Endgame" |
| 37% | EYES | 4 | What the holes in Swiss cheese are called |