| 100% | BARRENARROW | 11 | Before the pass: unproductive + pointer > After: dancer's rail + thin |
| 42% | FLORIDASPIRES | 13 | Before the pass: 27th state + skyline sights > After: ornate + hopes |
| 42% | MODESTORATION | 13 | Before the pass: central California city + share > After: humble + formal speech |
| 42% | BASEMENTRANSOMS | 15 | Before the pass: furnace site + hackers' demands > After: infielders + door features |
| 41% | SCHWABASSET | 11 | Before the pass: big brokerage + valuable attribute > After: unstressed vowel + long-eared dog |
| 33% | EVER | 4 | What's before after, at the end? |
| 29% | BLUR | 4 | The night before on the day after, maybe |
| 29% | STATE | 5 | Word before and after "of the" |
| 29% | ITSME | 5 | Words before and after "hi, I'm the problem" in Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" |
| 29% | DESSERT | 7 | The course before cheese, or after it in France |
| 29% | EGG | 3 | What came before or after the chicken |
| 28% | UGH | 3 | Cry before or after sticking out the tongue |
| 28% | SIR | 3 | Word before and after "yes," in the Army |
| 28% | SIR | 3 | Word before and after yes, in the military |
| 28% | EGG | 3 | It came before the chicken ... or maybe after? |
| 28% | BEATSADEAD | 10 | Before the bottom half of a 42-Down, keeps arguing after something has been decided |
| 28% | BARRE | 5 | Ballet dancer’s rail |
| 27% | HALPH/F | 7 | Word before and after an ampersand, in the grocery |
| 27% | ADA | 3 | Law passed shortly after the Capitol Crawl in 1990 |
| 27% | EGG | 3 | Did it come before the chicken, or after? |
| 27% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the ones before and after it |
| 27% | ETA | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the letters before and after it |
| 27% | ODARKTHIRTY | 11 | After midnight but before the dawn, in slang |
| 27% | PRETAXPROFITS | 13 | Earnings before the government's cut |
| 26% | WAVE | 4 | Ocean-related word before and after "on" for the title of a Pat Green song, mentioning a surfer's ride |
| 26% | ALA | 3 | Phrase before the chef's last name |
| 26% | CHACHAS | 7 | Does a Cuban dance named after the sound the dancers' feet make |
| 26% | EGG | 3 | It came before the chicken (or maybe after?) |
| 25% | NERO | 4 | Ruler who died before the fiddle's invention |
| 25% | NONET | 5 | The planets, before Pluto's downgrade |