| 100% | WEE | 3 | ___ hours (early hours of the day) |
| 85% | MORN | 4 | Early part of the day |
| 85% | MORNING | 7 | Early part of the day |
| 85% | MORNINGS | 8 | Early parts of the day |
| 85% | AMS | 3 | Early hours in the day: Abbr. |
| 85% | MORN | 4 | Early part of the day, poetically |
| 85% | AMS | 3 | Early parts of the day: Abbr. |
| 84% | MORN | 4 | Early part of the day, for short |
| 83% | NOON | 4 | Palindromic hour of the day |
| 82% | ELAPSE | 6 | Pass, like hours of the day |
| 81% | MORN | 4 | Poet's early part of the day |
| 76% | ELEVENTH | 8 | Month, day and hour of the 1918 armistice |
| 75% | MIDWINTER | 9 | Day with the fewest hours of daylight |
| 67% | TOMB | 4 | ___ of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetery monument that is guarded 24 hours a day) |
| 65% | POSSES | 6 | Rival rap groups in the early days of hip-hop |
| 64% | PHONO | 5 | Lead-in to “graph,” in the early days of audio recording |
| 64% | MEME | 4 | Image with two lines of Impact font, in the early days |
| 64% | VEEJAY | 6 | Martha Quinn or Alan Hunter, in the early days of MTV |
| 64% | OSLO | 4 | Capital city that gets as little as six hours of sunlight a day in the winter |
| 64% | CORONADO | 8 | Early explorer of the Southwest |
| 64% | SHANK | 5 | Early part of the evening |
| 64% | AGUE | 4 | Early sign of the plague |
| 63% | MONDAY | 6 | 24-hour period named for the day of the moon |
| 63% | NOISE | 5 | "A Cellarful of ___," music entrepreneur Brian Epstein's autobiography that covers the early days of The Beatles |
| 63% | AMS | 3 | Early hours in a day: Abbr. |
| 63% | BREAKFAST | 9 | The first meal of the day |
| 63% | AFTERNOON | 9 | The second half of the day |
| 63% | INCA | 4 | Early settler of the Cuzco valley |
| 63% | ERIES | 5 | Early people of the Great Lakes |
| 63% | UTES | 4 | Early people of the Great Basin |