| 100% | ADAGE | 5 | "Better late than never" is one |
| 100% | ADAGE | 5 | “Better late than never” is one |
| 80% | IDIOM | 5 | "Better late than never," for one |
| 80% | ADAGE | 5 | "Better late than never," for one |
| 63% | ADAGE | 5 | "Better late than never," e.g. |
| 63% | SAFES | 5 | Good ones are never cracked |
| 61% | ADAGE | 5 | Familiar saying like "Better late than never" |
| 61% | WAR | 3 | "There never was a good" one, according to Franklin |
| 61% | TWO | 3 | "___ heads are better than one" |
| 61% | HEADS | 5 | "Two ___ are better than one" |
| 61% | HEADS | 5 | Two are better than one |
| 61% | ADAGES | 6 | "Better late than never" and "Better safe than sorry" |
| 60% | ADAGE | 5 | "Better late than never," e.g. |
| 59% | TETES | 5 | Deux of these are better than one |
| 59% | HEADS | 5 | Two of them are better than one |
| 59% | HEADS | 5 | Two are better than one, they say |
| 59% | ADAGES | 6 | “Better late than never” and “Better safe than sorry,” for two |
| 59% | LEN | 3 | "Better Late Than Never: From Barrow Boy to Ballroom" memoirist Goodman |
| 58% | YOKE | 4 | For which two heads are better than one? |
| 57% | NEVER | 5 | Better late than ___ |
| 57% | MAG | 3 | Something for which two eds may be better than one |
| 56% | OPENINGMOVE | 11 | A castle can never be one |
| 56% | BETTER | 6 | __ late than never |
| 55% | ANGER | 5 | "___ is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one": Benjamin Franklin |
| 54% | ADAGE | 5 | "Better safe than sorry" is one |
| 53% | THAN | 4 | Better late ___ never! |
| 53% | THAN | 4 | Better late ___ never |
| 53% | THAN | 4 | Better late ____ never |
| 53% | THAN | 4 | Better late __ never |
| 52% | BETTER | 6 | A common saying, __ late than never |