| 100% | APOEM | 5 | "__ begins in delight and ends in wisdom": Frost |
| 81% | WISDOM | 6 | ''A poem begins in delight and ends in __'': Frost |
| 49% | AROUNDTHEWORLDINATDAYS | 22 | 1873 adventure novel that begins and ends in London |
| 44% | BEARAWAY | 8 | Long distance walking route in SW Republic of Ireland that begins and ends in Glengarriff, County Cork |
| 40% | BEALL | 5 | Beginning and end |
| 40% | URBANSPRAWL | 11 | Unrestricted city expansion ... and what begins in the circled letters (and ends in uncircled ones for you to find) |
| 39% | EMS | 3 | Beginning and ending of modernism |
| 39% | CEES | 4 | Beginning and ending of colic |
| 39% | SCHWAS | 6 | Beginning and end of "America" |
| 39% | JOBLOT | 6 | Odds and ends, in business |
| 38% | ASH | 3 | Beginning and end of a phoenix |
| 38% | HOME | 4 | Beginning and end of many journeys |
| 38% | THERE | 5 | Consolation beginning and ending |
| 38% | EMS | 3 | Millennium beginning and ending |
| 38% | ALPHAS | 6 | Beginning and ending of a Greek apologia? |
| 38% | ENS | 3 | Nixon's beginning and end |
| 37% | ALL | 3 | Beginning and end of 20-Across's motto |
| 37% | DAWN | 4 | Beginning of the day and end of night |
| 37% | SCHWA | 5 | "America" begins and ends with this |
| 37% | XES | 3 | "Xerox" begins and ends with them |
| 37% | EMS | 3 | Millennium, at the beginning and end? |
| 37% | ARC | 3 | Character's beginning, middle, and end |
| 37% | LYE | 3 | Solution in soap and frosted glass |
| 36% | SCENEV | 6 | In Act I, it begins "Enter Ghost and Hamlet" |
| 36% | XES | 3 | Letters that "Xanax" begins and ends with |
| 36% | TERMINAL | 8 | Where passengers begin and end a journey |
| 36% | RAGES | 5 | The beginning and end of rampages, fittingly? |
| 36% | ESSES | 5 | What sitcoms always begin and end with? |
| 36% | STORY | 5 | Tale with a beginning, middle, and end |
| 36% | URLS | 4 | They often begin with "www" and end with "com": Abbr. |