| 100% | WRATH | 5 | "Day of ___" (what "Dies Irae" means) |
| 64% | DIES | 4 | Day of wrath: ___ Irae |
| 61% | ANDSO | 5 | Part of what etc. means |
| 60% | TWO | 3 | What the "bi" of "bicentennial" means |
| 58% | YORE | 4 | What olden days were of |
| 57% | TUESDAY | 7 | What the "Mardi" of Mardi Gras means |
| 57% | FAT | 3 | What the "Gras" of Mardi Gras means |
| 57% | HORN | 4 | What the second half of "unicorn" means |
| 57% | ONE | 3 | What the first half of "unicorn" means |
| 56% | END | 3 | What checkmate means, in a game of chess |
| 55% | SLEEP | 5 | What newborns do for most of the day |
| 55% | NINELADIESDANCING | 17 | “The Twelve Days of Christmas” gift (and what this puzzle features) |
| 54% | AGE | 3 | What number of candles on a birthday cake means |
| 54% | FOR | 3 | What "4" means in a lot of texts |
| 54% | SITS | 4 | What a judge does for much of the day |
| 53% | FOLIOS | 6 | What ff. means in world of printing and books |
| 53% | RED | 3 | What you'll see plenty of on Valentine's Day |
| 53% | INTERNATIONALDATELINE | 21 | What comes between Pi Day and the Ides of March? |
| 53% | LETTER | 6 | What every side of a Boggle die has on it |
| 53% | STATE | 5 | What "taxes," "wonkery" and "I mean" are each anagrams of |
| 53% | OIL | 3 | What lasted for eight days, in the story of Hanukkah |
| 52% | FARDISTANTPLACE | 15 | What the Athabaskan word for the beginning of 33-Across means |
| 52% | BEADS | 5 | What a glass of cold water forms on a hot day |
| 50% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 50% | THESE | 5 | One of ___ days, he'll get what's coming to him... |
| 50% | FAT | 3 | What the "gras" of "Mardi Gras" means |
| 49% | LOVE | 4 | What crossing your hands in front of your chest means in American Sign Language |
| 49% | BACKCHANNEL | 11 | Covert means of communication ... or what's hiding in the circled letters? |
| 49% | CARPEDIEM | 9 | Mantra of Dead Poets Society, means Seize the Day |
| 48% | REST | 4 | Day of ___ |