| 100% | ETERNE | 6 | Ageless, in an earlier age |
| 77% | OLDE | 4 | Aged, in an earlier age |
| 57% | BASICTRAINING | 13 | Instruction in an early computer language? |
| 57% | CANARY | 6 | Bird in an early warning system |
| 57% | ECTODERM | 8 | External layer in an early embryo |
| 56% | PRIMITIVE | 9 | Describes something in an early evolutionary form |
| 56% | NEOPETS | 7 | Virtual animals in an early 2000s fad |
| 55% | SIM | 3 | Character in an early city-building video game |
| 55% | WIMPLE | 6 | Garb in an early ''Sound of Music'' lyric |
| 55% | SARS | 4 | Disease in an early-two-thousands outbreak, familiarly |
| 54% | PSA | 3 | Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short |
| 53% | SEXES | 5 | Sides in an age-old "battle" |
| 53% | GOODANDEVIL | 11 | Sides in an age-old battle |
| 53% | SEXES | 5 | Sides in an age-old battle |
| 53% | EVIL | 4 | Side in an age-old battle |
| 52% | BASS | 4 | Big Mouth Billy ___ (singing fish prop in an early-2000s fad) |
| 52% | SHE | 3 | One side in an age-old battle |
| 52% | HUGUENOT | 8 | Many an early French settler in America |
| 52% | PRIMITIVE | 9 | Relating to an early stage in development |
| 51% | OLDDUFFER | 9 | In golf, an aging player |
| 51% | PERIOD | 6 | Play from an earlier time or age, __ play |
| 51% | IRA | 3 | An early withdrawal from this incurs a penalty, in brief |
| 51% | UPTHREAD | 8 | Earlier in an Internet-forum discussion |
| 50% | CROSSTHEROAD | 12 | Make like a chicken in an age-old joke |
| 50% | TORSO | 5 | Line drawn after an early wrong guess in hangman |
| 50% | LEO | 3 | He has an early cameo in most 007 films |
| 49% | POINSETTIA | 10 | Plant named for an early U.S. diplomat in Mexico |
| 48% | IDED | 4 | Verified an age, in a bar |
| 48% | SICE | 4 | Best throw you could get on a die in an early English game of Hazard |
| 48% | YWCA | 4 | Grp. that opened an early employment bureau in New York City |