| 100% | BLACKOUT | 8 | A period during a massive power failure |
| 46% | BREAKROUND | 10 | Rest period during a fight? |
| 44% | EON | 3 | A massive period of time |
| 43% | CEASEFIRE | 9 | Period of peace during a war |
| 43% | LULL | 4 | Period of calm during a storm |
| 43% | TRIMESTER | 9 | A period of three months during pregnancy |
| 43% | RECOVERY | 8 | Period during which a patient gets better |
| 43% | INTERREGNUM | 11 | Period during which a throne is vacant |
| 43% | UPTIME | 6 | Period during which a computer is functioning |
| 43% | LOOTER | 6 | Thief during a power outage |
| 43% | HOSTINTHEDARK | 13 | Emcee during a power outage? |
| 42% | SAIL | 4 | A massive piece of cloth that powers boats |
| 42% | UPTIME | 6 | Period during which a computer is in operation |
| 42% | TIMELIMIT | 9 | Period enforced during a standardized test (2 wds.) |
| 42% | GASLANTERN | 10 | Quaint light during a power outage |
| 41% | EROTICART | 9 | Works during a painter's blue period? |
| 41% | CHERRYPICKER | 12 | Truck seen during a power outage, maybe |
| 40% | HORN | 4 | Sound heard at the end of a period during basketball or hockey games |
| 40% | REGENCY | 7 | The period during which a ruler governs a land |
| 40% | REMSLEEP | 8 | You might not get it during a power nap |
| 38% | HAN | 3 | Period during which lishu, a precursor to today’s standard script, became dominant |
| 38% | OUTAGE | 6 | Result of a power-transformer failure, probably |
| 37% | BBC | 3 | Network mentioned in a song during "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" |
| 36% | THESILENCE | 10 | Novella by 44-Across that imagines a massive technology failure on Super Bowl Sunday in 2022 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | MODE | 4 | Sleep ___ (low-power period for a computer) |
| 34% | IPA | 3 | Quite a bitter beer invented during the British colonial period, for short |
| 34% | STINGININTHERAIN | 16 | *... a bee during a downpour? |
| 33% | OUTAGE | 6 | Power failure |
| 33% | BLACKOUT | 8 | Power failure |
| 33% | OUTAGES | 7 | Power failures |