| 100% | JESSE | 5 | With 7-Across, track star at the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| 53% | JESSEOWENS | 10 | Star of the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| 51% | FOURGOLDS | 9 | Jesse Owens' medal haul at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin: 2 wds. |
| 48% | MARIONJONES | 11 | American track star who won three gold medals and two bronze medals at the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 (2 wds.) |
| 48% | OWENS | 5 | Track star Jesse of the 1936 Olympics |
| 48% | LYLES | 5 | Track star Noah, gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics |
| 45% | OWENS | 5 | Track star Jesse who brought home four gold medals from the 1936 Olympics |
| 43% | CHISHOLM | 8 | With 7 Across, she who said, "If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." |
| 43% | ONION | 5 | With 7-Across, fried appetizer that's appropriate for the Olympics? |
| 42% | DIPLOMATIC | 10 | With 29-Across, 2018 Drake track that debuted at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| 41% | RED | 3 | With 7-Across, flight option that saves money at the expense of sleep |
| 41% | BIRDSOF | 7 | With 22-Across, Billie Eilish hit performed at the 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony: 2 wds. |
| 40% | OLGA | 4 | Korbut who starred at the 1972 Olympics |
| 40% | MIAHAMM | 7 | U.S. women’s soccer star at the Atlanta Olympics |
| 39% | STRUG | 5 | Kerri ___, U.S. gymnastics star at the 1996 Olympics |
| 38% | EPEE | 4 | Fencing sword at the Summer Olympics |
| 38% | KENYA | 5 | Nation represented by the track star David Rudisha at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics |
| 37% | GYM | 3 | ___nastics are always a popular event at the summer Olympics |
| 36% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 36% | TESH | 4 | Composer John who was a gymnastics sportscaster at the Summer Olympics |
| 36% | TOMMIESMITH | 11 | Black Power saluter at the 1968 Olympics, along with John Carlos |
| 36% | CLIPPED | 7 | With 42 Across, prepared to save at the grocery |
| 35% | PRIDE | 5 | With 57-Across, time period honoring the group hinted at by the beginning of the starred clues |
| 35% | HAS | 3 | With 7-Across, faded stars, of sorts |
| 35% | NORTH | 5 | With 7-Across, top of the world? |
| 35% | SPITZ | 5 | Mark who won seven golds at the 1972 Summer Olympics |
| 35% | ILKA | 4 | With 1-Across, star of Broadway's "The Women," 1936 |
| 35% | RIO | 3 | City with the 2016 Summer Olympics, for short |
| 35% | EMINEM | 6 | Hip Hop star with the diss track "Killshot" |
| 35% | NIMBUS | 6 | With 7-Across, sources of the circled words |