| 100% | FINALS | 6 | Wimbledon or U.S. Open round with an octet of players left |
| 33% | IVAN | 4 | With 21-Across, U.S. Open champ of 1985-87 |
| 32% | SOLOPROJECT | 11 | Venture undertaken after leaving the band . . . or an apt description of each of the works with italicized clues |
| 31% | HINGIS | 6 | 1997 winner of Wimbledon and the U.S. Open |
| 31% | MICHELLE | 8 | With 35-Across, a member of Destiny's Child, or an actress in "Brokeback Mountain" |
| 30% | ERNIE | 5 | With 34-Down, golf's U.S. Open champion of 1994 and 1997 |
| 30% | SIDE | 4 | Left or right position of an object |
| 30% | BAGPIPER | 8 | Player of an instrument associated with Scotland |
| 30% | OSAKA | 5 | With 1d, it's the name of the reigning US Open Champion in women's singles |
| 30% | FOLIO | 5 | Manuscript page, or suffix with "port" for an art student's collection of work |
| 30% | ERNIE | 5 | With 28-Across, winner of golf's 1997 U.S. Open |
| 30% | KNOB | 4 | Round part of an old TV or radio |
| 30% | SIDE | 4 | Right or left of an object |
| 30% | VACEK | 5 | Daniel —, winner of the 1997 US Open men's doubles tennis championship with Yevgeny Kafelnikov |
| 29% | PROS | 4 | U.S. Open players, usually |
| 29% | SIXTIMEWINNER | 13 | Unique claim of the U.S. Open player whose name is hidden in 34-Across |
| 29% | LABOR | 5 | U.S. Department of ___ (org. with an anvil on its seal) |
| 29% | POP | 3 | With 71-Across, Destiny's Child or the Supremes, and an apt description of this puzzle's longest answers |
| 29% | SIDE | 4 | To the left or right of an object |
| 29% | VERA | 4 | ___ Zvonareva, tennis player who was the co-winner of Women's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 29% | THIEM | 5 | Dominic ___, Austrian tennis player who was the winner of Men's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 29% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Osaka, Japanese tennis player who was the winner of Women's singles at the 2020 US Open |
| 28% | SLOT | 4 | Parking meter opening... or an apt anagram of "lots" |
| 28% | MATE | 4 | ___ Pavic, Croatian tennis player who was the co-winner of Men's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 28% | LAURA | 5 | ___ Siegemund, German tennis player who was the co-winner of Women's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 28% | SOARES | 6 | Bruno ___, Brazilian tennis player who was the co-winner of Men's doubles at the 2020 US Open |
| 28% | AGASSI | 6 | U.S. Open winner of 1994 and 1999 |
| 28% | IKEAST | 6 | Furniture outlet with an average size of 300,000 square feet, or five football fields |
| 28% | HAZEL | 5 | Tree or large shrub with rounded leaves and edible brown nuts |
| 27% | ACANTHUS | 8 | Genus of plants with large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers whose species include bear’s breeches |