| 100% | OLD | 3 | ___ age, stage of life where one relaxes in retirement (:-)) |
| 42% | ERA | 3 | Distinctive stage of life, in slang |
| 39% | PUPA | 4 | Stage of a bug's life, in a cocoon |
| 38% | TAXES | 5 | One of two "certainties" in life |
| 38% | SPRY | 4 | Full of life for one's age |
| 38% | AMEBA | 5 | One of the little things in life? |
| 38% | TAXES | 5 | One of Franklin's certainties in life |
| 37% | PUPA | 4 | Stage in the life cycle of a moth |
| 37% | OAT | 3 | One of the four grains in Life cereal |
| 37% | CAESAR | 6 | One of the lives in Plutarch's "Lives" |
| 37% | TAXES | 5 | One of life's certainties, in a saying |
| 37% | AMORE | 5 | Love of one's life in Italy? |
| 36% | RKO | 3 | One of the Big Five in Hollywood's Golden Age |
| 36% | PUPAL | 5 | Like one stage in an insect's life |
| 36% | ERA | 3 | Period of one's life, in TikTok talk |
| 36% | KAMA | 4 | One of the four proper objectives of human life, in Hinduism |
| 36% | OLDDOG | 6 | One who's past the age of learning, in a saying |
| 36% | HIPS | 4 | Where the hands are placed in one step of the macarena |
| 35% | AGE | 3 | Stage of life |
| 35% | PAW | 3 | Where the lion had a thorn, in one of Aesop's fables |
| 35% | KANSAS | 6 | US state where Dorothy lives in the Wizard of Oz |
| 35% | DAYTODAY | 8 | How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future |
| 34% | CUB | 3 | One relaxing in a den |
| 34% | PEASEBLOSSOM | 12 | One of the fairies in William Shakespeare stage play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| 34% | MOTORSPEEDWAY | 13 | Indianapolis ___, the race track to have claimed the most number of lives in Formula One : 2 wds. |
| 34% | LARVA | 5 | Stage of life for a caterpillar |
| 34% | OLDAGE | 6 | "Ripe" stage of life |
| 34% | EMBRYO | 6 | Early stage of life |
| 34% | EMBRYO | 6 | Beginning stage of life |
| 34% | DOTAGE | 6 | Elderly stage of life |