| 100% | COIN | 4 | With 42-Across, starts of pro football games |
| 54% | TOSS | 4 | Start of a football game |
| 49% | RUDYARD | 7 | With 42 Across, British author of ''How the Camel Got His Hump'' |
| 49% | SOMETHINGOLD | 12 | With 52 Across, start of a bridalwear rhyme |
| 47% | TEED | 4 | Started a game of golf, with "up" |
| 46% | SANG | 4 | With 42-Across, coolness of mind |
| 45% | YOKO | 4 | With 42-Across, Beatle bride of 1969 |
| 45% | ANTS | 4 | With 42-Across, source of restless anticipation |
| 44% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which each player starts with a score of 501 |
| 44% | RORSCHACH | 9 | With 42-Across, part of a psychologist's battery |
| 44% | ROLL | 4 | With 23 Across, start-of-class activity |
| 44% | CLUE | 4 | Game associated with the starts of 17-, 23-, 32-, 40-, 47- and 54-Across |
| 43% | GRANDTHEFTAUTO | 14 | With 42-Across, 2001 video game set in Liberty City |
| 42% | FLYMETO | 7 | With 42 Across, Sinatra tune |
| 42% | ONE | 3 | With 42-Across, usual result of a leadoff batter getting three strikes |
| 42% | COIN | 4 | It's tossed at the start of a football game |
| 42% | NEVERSKIP | 9 | With 42 Across, dietician's advice |
| 41% | SHELOOKSSO | 10 | With 42-Across, 2014 debut single by 5 Seconds of Summer: 3 wds. |
| 41% | SONICTHE | 8 | With 42-Across, speedy blue title character of a 2020 film: 2 wds. |
| 41% | JACKIESLATER | 12 | Pro Football Hall of Famer whose son Matthew has won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots (2 wds.) |
| 41% | DEAL | 4 | Start a game of 54-Across, say |
| 41% | PING | 4 | With 57-Across, game that includes the starts of 17-, 29-, 48- and 64-Across |
| 41% | ANCIENT | 7 | With 42-Across, subject of the poem that contains the line 17-/65-Across |
| 41% | KICKOFF | 7 | Football game start |
| 40% | COINTOSS | 8 | 50-50 flip at the start of a football game |
| 40% | JUNIPER | 7 | With 42 Across, they give gin its flavor |
| 40% | MOVEFASTAND | 11 | With 55-Across, modern principle of start-ups |
| 40% | ISTHERE | 7 | With 18-Across, start of a query |
| 40% | FAME | 4 | Pro Football Hall of ___ |
| 40% | HALL | 4 | Pro Football ____ of --> |