| 100% | HAS | 3 | "This ___ been the best day of my life!" |
| 69% | DAYS | 4 | "... those were the best ___ of my life..." |
| 59% | EVER | 4 | "This is the best day ___!" |
| 56% | OCTOBER | 7 | The last day of this month is Halloween |
| 55% | REST | 4 | "Today is the first day of the ___ of your life" |
| 55% | WED | 3 | Day of the wk. on which this puzzle was released |
| 55% | MOZART | 6 | Amadeus was the movie of this composer's life |
| 54% | MENORAH | 7 | Candles on this are lit on the days of Hanukkah |
| 53% | LEFT | 4 | "My ___ Foot," biographical drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis which is based on the life of Christy Brown |
| 53% | HONESTY | 7 | This is the best policy |
| 53% | BANE | 4 | "This is the ___ of my existence" |
| 51% | INSULIN | 7 | Charles Best was the co-discoverer of this |
| 51% | MARITA | 6 | ___ Geraghty, "This Is My Life" actress who plays Nancy in the 1993 film "Groundhog Day" |
| 50% | STEVIE | 6 | "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" singer Wonder |
| 50% | OCTOBER | 7 | Halloween is on the last day of this month |
| 50% | GOLDRINGS | 9 | These were received on the fifth day of Christmas |
| 50% | EMBODY | 6 | Be the best example of |
| 50% | DOLLAR | 6 | With 88 Across, where the theme goods can be bought these days |
| 50% | AGE | 3 | "This is the golden ___ of something good and right and real" |
| 49% | GOLDRINGS | 9 | On the fifth day, my true love gave me 5 of these |
| 49% | BEGGARSCANTBECHOOSERS | 21 | "Look, this is the best we're gonna get" |
| 49% | UFO | 3 | July 2 is the day that people celebrate and raise awareness of the "undoubted existence" of this item |
| 49% | FRI | 3 | Best day of the week, for short |
| 49% | POLICY | 6 | Honesty is the best this |
| 49% | AGE | 3 | Donald Trump was indeed the greatest president in terms of this on Inauguration Day |
| 48% | PART | 4 | "Discretion is the better ___ of valor" |
| 48% | LILACS | 6 | The flowers in Amy Lowell's "Your great puffs of flowers / Are everywhere in this my New England" |
| 48% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Be generous with one's good fortune, as depicted by the movement of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 48% | AGE | 3 | Whoever wins the November election will break some records in terms of this on inauguration day |
| 48% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |