| 100% | OMAR | 4 | "'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet |
| 41% | LESTER | 6 | Richard ___, director of "Help!" and "A Hard Day's Night" |
| 41% | THAT | 4 | All ___ and a bag of chips |
| 41% | BAG | 3 | All that and a ___ of chips |
| 40% | MOORE | 5 | ''And to all a good-night!'' poet |
| 40% | HANUKKAH | 8 | Jewish holiday observed for eight nights and days also called the Festival of Lights |
| 40% | AYRES | 5 | Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced |
| 40% | CONTRAST | 8 | A sharp difference such as day and night |
| 39% | EQUINOX | 7 | When day and night are of equal length |
| 39% | EQUINOX | 7 | Date with equal division of day and night |
| 38% | AIMECESAIRE | 11 | Poet and intellectual who was a founder of the Négritude movement |
| 38% | EDGARALLAN | 10 | First two of a short-story writer and poet |
| 38% | BROWNING | 8 | Surname of an English poet and a firearm designer |
| 38% | DAYO | 4 | "Work all night on a drink of rum" song |
| 38% | EQUINOX | 7 | Time when day and night are of equal length |
| 38% | EQUINOX | 7 | Period when day and night are of equal length |
| 37% | ALADDIN | 7 | One of the stories of A Thousand And One Nights |
| 37% | CALENDAR | 8 | Chart with the days, weeks, and months of a year |
| 37% | DIVING | 6 | Sport of jumping off of a board and into water |
| 37% | OPPOSITES | 9 | Night and day, say |
| 37% | KENNEDY | 7 | A L —, author of story collections All the Rage and What Becomes |
| 37% | END | 3 | At the ___ of the day (when all is said and done) |
| 37% | HOLEUP | 6 | Stay in all day, maybe with hot chocolate and a crossword |
| 37% | KRIEGSPIEL | 10 | Variation of chess involving two players, three boards and a referee |
| 37% | TRE | 3 | Third album of a Green Day trilogy, following "¡Uno!" and "¡Dos!" |
| 37% | SIAM | 4 | Neighbor of India and China on a Risk board |
| 36% | XENOPHANES | 10 | Greek poet and philosopher regarded as a founder of the Eleatic School |
| 36% | GNP | 3 | Market value of all goods and services produced in a year: Abbr |
| 36% | BODY | 4 | Physical structure of a human that holds all the flesh and organs |