| 100% | MEL | 3 | With 104-Across, former voice of "This Week in Baseball" |
| 52% | BARRY | 5 | With 32-Across, former baseball star found guilty in 2011 of criminal conduct |
| 52% | PETE | 4 | With 34-Across, former baseball star found guilty in 1990 of criminal conduct |
| 44% | MEL | 3 | Allen who was the first host of "This Week in Baseball" |
| 43% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 42% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 42% | DENIS | 5 | Stand-up comic and voice of Diego in Ice Age (with 1 across) |
| 40% | SOMECELEBRITIESYOUCAN | 21 | With 115 Across, theme of this puzzle |
| 40% | OUTS | 4 | In baseball there are three of these in one inning |
| 40% | STRIKES | 7 | In baseball, three of these mean the batter is out |
| 39% | COMING | 6 | With 5-Across, arriving in the area in the vein of this week's visitor |
| 39% | COOKIE | 6 | With 36-Across, mass-produced ... and what each of four black squares in this puzzle is? |
| 39% | MASTS | 5 | Three of these came over with the Mayflower in 1620 |
| 38% | TAN | 3 | With 69-Across, beach markings ... 14 of which are hidden vertically and horizontally elsewhere in this puzzle |
| 38% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 38% | IMPULSE | 7 | With 63-Across, Freudian concept of resisting temptation ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 38% | CLEVELAND | 9 | With 20 Across, baseball team name announced in July |
| 38% | MELOTT | 6 | Former Giants player in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 38% | PEANUT | 6 | With 34 Across, seller of small snacks in shells |
| 38% | BLACK | 5 | With 41- and 43-Across, cop cruiser ... or a description of the five animals named in this puzzle |
| 38% | PASSIVE | 7 | Type of voice used in this clue |
| 38% | JULIAN | 6 | With 33-Across, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas who ran for president in 2020 |
| 38% | HOTCORNER | 9 | Third base, in baseball lingo, or one of four in this puzzle |
| 37% | SUNTAN | 6 | With 71 Across, what the people in this puzzle need? |
| 37% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |
| 37% | SHEA | 4 | Name of a former baseball stadium in Queens that neighbored (and is an anagram of) 9-Across |
| 37% | DROOPY | 6 | Canine with deadpan voice, in need of facelift |
| 37% | PENA | 4 | Former MLB catcher Tony in the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 37% | ICHIRO | 6 | With 41-Across, Japanese baseball player who was named both AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP in 2001 |
| 37% | ALL | 3 | With 36-Down and 38-Across, Blink-182 hit song, and a description of four long answers in this puzzle |