| 100% | SLAIN | 5 | “O, I am ___” (Polonius’s last words, in “Hamlet”) |
| 78% | SLAIN | 5 | "O, I am ___!" (Polonius's last words) |
| 59% | NERO | 4 | His last words were "What an artist the world is losing in me!" |
| 59% | NERO | 4 | His last words were, “What an artist the world is losing in me!” |
| 59% | NOBLER | 6 | Word in Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy |
| 53% | SPEE | 4 | Last word in the name of a WW I German warship |
| 51% | HEINE | 5 | Poet whose last words were "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business" |
| 50% | DRESSINGS | 9 | What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are |
| 50% | ISLE | 4 | Last word in Gilligan's theme |
| 49% | YES | 3 | Molly Bloom's last word in "Ulysses" |
| 49% | VOILA | 5 | Last word in a showman's spiel |
| 49% | ROSEBUD | 7 | Kane's last word in "Citizen Kane" |
| 49% | CAPTAINAHAB | 11 | His last words were "Thus, I give up the spear!" |
| 49% | ROMEO | 5 | His last words were "Thus with a kiss I die" |
| 49% | ROMEO | 5 | Whose last words are "Thus with a kiss I die" |
| 48% | EVER | 4 | Last word in the Lord's Prayer, before "Amen" |
| 48% | FARM | 4 | Word before "E, I, E, I, O," in song |
| 47% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" |
| 47% | SHUT | 4 | Last word in the title of Kubrick's last film |
| 47% | REST | 4 | "The __ is silence": Hamlet's last words |
| 46% | CITY | 4 | Last word in the names of four U.S. state capitals |
| 46% | SYNE | 4 | The last word in some New Year's poetry |
| 46% | DENY | 4 | Last word in the song "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" |
| 45% | DEPART | 6 | What the last words of eight key answers in this puzzle are slangy synonyms of |
| 45% | THATSALLFOLKS | 13 | Last words in animation? |
| 45% | MATE | 4 | Last word in chess |
| 45% | AMEN | 4 | Last word in prayer |
| 45% | KREME | 5 | Last word in doughnuts? |
| 45% | KREME | 5 | Last word in doughnuts |