| 100% | ROOKIE | 6 | With 35-Across, Major League player's first full year |
| 46% | PETE | 4 | With 35-Across, one who has done the circled things, combined, more often than any other major-league player |
| 43% | NYGIANT | 7 | Major League player before moving to S.F. |
| 42% | APR | 3 | First full mo. with 15 Across |
| 41% | APRIL | 5 | First full month of the Major League season |
| 40% | APR | 3 | First full month of Major League Baseball, often: Abbr. |
| 40% | GEHRIG | 6 | First major league player to have his number retired |
| 38% | RUSTY | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who hit his first home run at age 19 (Colt .45s, 1963) and his last at age 41 (Mets, 1985) |
| 37% | GEHRIG | 6 | First Major League Baseball player to have his number retired |
| 37% | ASTRODOME | 9 | Major League's first roofed stadium |
| 36% | PRO | 3 | Major league player |
| 36% | IRENE | 5 | With 35-Across, player of Granny on “The Beverly Hillbillies” |
| 36% | RAT | 3 | With 35 Across, grind |
| 35% | PROS | 4 | Major league players, for short |
| 35% | HAM | 3 | With 35 Across, common lunchbox contents |
| 34% | BLOB | 4 | Steve McQueen's first major movie, with "The" |
| 33% | ANTHONY | 7 | With 35-Across, first pick of the 2013 NBA draft, taken by the Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 33% | NAOMI | 5 | With 39-Across, Japanese tennis player and co-winner of Sports Illustrated's 2020 Sportsperson of the Year |
| 33% | SHOHEI | 6 | With 35-Across, pitcher for the Angels who won the American League MVP award in 2021 |
| 33% | BIGS | 4 | Major leagues, slangily, with "the" |
| 33% | SNOW | 4 | With 5-Across, heroine of Disney's first full-length animated movie |
| 32% | THESHOEISONTHE | 14 | With 35 Across, "I've turned the tables on you" |
| 32% | HOWDOWEGET | 10 | With 35-Across, spy's question concerning wiretaps |
| 32% | CUB | 3 | Major League Baseball player in Illinois |
| 32% | RAY | 3 | Major-league player from 32-Across |
| 32% | EDT | 3 | Setting for the PGA Tour's first major of the year |
| 32% | VLADIMIR | 8 | With 35-Across, outfielder with over 1,000 hits for one team in each league (Expos and Angels) |
| 32% | ONEIL | 5 | Buck ___, Major League Baseball's first Black coach |
| 32% | JUSTIN | 6 | With 35-Across, "Yummy" singer who won the Pop Album of the Year Juno in 2011 and 2016 |
| 32% | SOSA | 4 | Major League Baseball player nicknamed "Slammin' Sammy" |