| 100% | STRAW | 5 | "This is the last ___!" |
| 100% | END | 3 | This is the last bit |
| 85% | IVEHADIT | 8 | "This is the last straw!" |
| 84% | QUEEN | 5 | Zewditu was the last of these in Ethiopia, until 1930 |
| 84% | OCTOBER | 7 | The last day of this month is Halloween |
| 83% | IMSODONE | 8 | "This is the last straw for me" |
| 78% | TIME | 4 | "Now is not the ___" ("Do this later") |
| 76% | LPGA | 4 | Peggy Kirk Bell and Jan Stephenson are the latest members of this org.'s Hall of Fame |
| 76% | WICHITALINEMAN | 14 | Glen Campbell hit, the last word of which is this puzzle's theme |
| 76% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |
| 76% | LINER | 5 | "Queen Mary 2," now docked at Southampton, is the last operating ship that was originally one of these |
| 76% | MAID | 4 | (2/5) "You're pointed toward a ___ (housekeeping employee) who was the last to see this priceless item..." |
| 74% | NAWAB | 5 | The last of these in Bahawalpur was Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V Abbasi, who reigned until 1956 |
| 74% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 73% | RUMP | 4 | This is the end |
| 73% | FINISHLINE | 10 | This is the end |
| 73% | TAO | 3 | This is the way |
| 73% | ZEE | 3 | This is the end |
| 73% | DDAY | 4 | Last year was the 75th anniversary of this notable WWII event |
| 73% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 72% | WIN | 3 | Be the last person standing |
| 72% | THIS | 4 | "__ is the last straw!" |
| 72% | HONESTY | 7 | This is the best policy |
| 71% | POPES | 5 | 10 featured last names in this puzzle are also the names of these |
| 71% | FIST | 4 | The last parts of 20- and 60-Across and 10- and 36-Down are things you can do with this |
| 71% | OCTOBER | 7 | Halloween is on the last day of this month |
| 71% | DST | 3 | Observance that was the subject of a Last Week Tonight "How Is This Still a Thing?" segment: abbr. |
| 71% | ION | 3 | The last of these Saturn passenger cars was built in March 2007 at GM's Spring Hill, TN, assembly plant |
| 70% | IVEHADIT | 8 | "That was the last straw!" |
| 70% | TSAR | 4 | Nicholas II was the last |