| 100% | SOWHATELSEISNEW | 15 | "Must be a day ending in Y" |
| 70% | DAY | 3 | "Must be a ___ ending in Y" |
| 54% | ITLL | 4 | "___ be a cold day in ..." |
| 53% | COLD | 4 | "That'll be a ___ day in hell!" |
| 53% | ITLL | 4 | "_____ be a cold day in hell..." |
| 53% | ITLL | 4 | "___ be a cold day in hell..." |
| 53% | ITLL | 4 | "___ be a cold day in hell ..." |
| 52% | ITLL | 4 | "___ be a cold day in hell before ..." |
| 52% | ITLL | 4 | "___ be a cold day in hell when ..." |
| 50% | AIL | 3 | Be in need of a sick day |
| 49% | SERA | 4 | "Will be," in a Doris Day song |
| 48% | CANDLES | 7 | In olden days, they were once made by a chandler |
| 47% | SNOOPY | 6 | Cartoon beagle who is a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade |
| 47% | OBAMA | 5 | First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y |
| 47% | CAESARSWIFE | 11 | One who must be above suspicion, in a saying |
| 47% | JOHN | 4 | ___ Connor, character who is a sidekick to the Terminator in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" |
| 46% | AUTISM | 6 | April 2 is World __ Awareness Day; the A in ASD |
| 46% | ITLL | 4 | "___be a cold day in..." |
| 45% | SERA | 4 | "Will be," in a Day song |
| 45% | MAMA | 4 | Who "said there'll be days like this," in a 1961 hit |
| 45% | EMMATHOMPSON | 12 | "Howards End" actress who was made a Dame in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 45% | JONES | 5 | James Earl ___, "Coming 2 America" actor who was a featured Martin Luther King Day speaker in 2002 |
| 44% | DEAD | 4 | Adjective that might be used hyperbolically at the end of a long day |
| 44% | HAS | 3 | "It ___ been a day!" |
| 44% | LEIS | 4 | May 1 was a day chosen by Don Blanding, then of the Honolulu Star Bulletin, in 1927 for a celebration of these |
| 44% | HRS | 3 | There are 24 in a day: Abbr. |
| 44% | HRS | 3 | There are 24 in a day (Abbr.) |
| 44% | HRS | 3 | There are 24 in a day, briefly |
| 44% | YOURENOTSERIOUS | 15 | “That must be a joke” |
| 44% | MAMASAEGO/ID | 12 | Title lyric that precedes "There'll be days like this" in a Shirelles classic |