| 100% | CIRCA | 5 | Around the time (Latin) |
| 82% | CIRCA | 5 | Around the time of |
| 81% | PERINATAL | 9 | Around the time of birth |
| 75% | ESSENE | 6 | Sect member around the time of Christ |
| 71% | PERINATAL | 9 | Relating to the time around birth |
| 71% | LAPS | 4 | Times around the track |
| 71% | SPRINGTIDE | 10 | Shore phenomenon around the time of the new and full moons |
| 70% | YEAR | 4 | One round around the sun, in time |
| 70% | DELAY | 5 | Time around the Spanish stall |
| 69% | TEM | 3 | President Pro ___ ("For the time being," in Latin) |
| 69% | BEEN | 4 | "I've ___ around the block a few times" |
| 69% | FEW | 3 | "I've been around the block a ___ times" |
| 68% | ILIAD | 5 | Epic written around the same time as the "Odyssey" |
| 67% | AFEW | 4 | "I've been around the block ___ times": 2 wds. |
| 67% | AFEW | 4 | "He's been around the block ___ times": 2 wds. |
| 67% | AFEW | 4 | "They've been around the block ___ times": 2 wds. |
| 67% | VICEVERSA | 9 | Latin expression meaning the other way around |
| 67% | NYE | 3 | Time around the new year, festively: Abbr. |
| 66% | AGESET | 6 | A social group of people born around the same time |
| 64% | LAP | 3 | One time around the track |
| 63% | ERECT | 5 | What most moai were not, by the time the 20th century rolled around |
| 62% | CRUNCH | 6 | Trying time for the church around part of Runcorn |
| 61% | YRS | 3 | Times of orbits around the sun: Abbr. |
| 60% | THISISNTMY | 10 | With 87-Across, "I've been around the block a few times" [ref. 23-Across] |
| 59% | YEAR | 4 | Time to go once around the sun |
| 59% | SOLARYEAR | 9 | Time of one revolution around the sun |
| 57% | VICEVERSA | 9 | Latin for "the other way around" |
| 57% | SOMEONE | 7 | Pronoun sung multiple times in the 1968 hit "Turn Around, Look at Me" |
| 55% | MIDLEG | 6 | Around the knee |
| 55% | GAGA | 4 | Around the bend |