| 100% | DAWN | 4 | Beginning of the day and end of night |
| 65% | FEB | 3 | Only mo. that can begin and end on the same day of the week |
| 62% | RAGES | 5 | The beginning and end of rampages, fittingly? |
| 60% | TWILIGHT | 8 | Period when day is ending and night is beginning |
| 59% | ARTOODETOO | 10 | Character seen at the beginning and end of "Star Wars" |
| 58% | EVENING | 7 | The end of afternoon to the beginning of night |
| 57% | FORTY | 5 | Number of days and nights of rainfall during the Bible's great flood |
| 57% | SUNSET | 6 | The end of the day, when the light begins to fade |
| 56% | ONMARS | 6 | End of the sci-fi film titles "First Man ..." and "Last Days ..." |
| 56% | EDEN | 4 | Eve's garden … or the letters at the beginning and end of "Eve's garden" |
| 56% | DAWN | 4 | Beginning of the day |
| 55% | MORN | 4 | Beginning of the day, poetically |
| 54% | ESS | 3 | It’s near the end of August and at the beginning of September |
| 54% | EQUINOX | 7 | Either of the two occasions when day and night are of equal length |
| 54% | BACH | 4 | "The beginning and end of all music," per Max Reger |
| 53% | IVORY | 5 | James —, Best Director Oscar nominee for Howards End, A Room with a View and The Remains of the Day |
| 53% | AFTERPARTY | 10 | Oscar night celebration ... and where to find the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | SCHWAS | 6 | Beginning and end of "America" |
| 52% | EMS | 3 | Beginning and ending of modernism |
| 52% | CEES | 4 | Beginning and ending of colic |
| 52% | BELL | 4 | Sound signaling the start and end of class |
| 52% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | What ends many a line, and what begins each of the puzzle's three other long answers |
| 52% | ASH | 3 | Beginning and end of a phoenix |
| 52% | HOME | 4 | Beginning and end of many journeys |
| 51% | SEPIA | 5 | Tone of ''The Wizard of Oz'' beginning and end |
| 51% | DEARJOHN | 8 | Beginning of the end of a relationship? |
| 51% | ALPHAS | 6 | Beginning and ending of a Greek apologia? |
| 51% | HANUKKAH | 8 | Jewish holiday observed for eight nights and days also called the Festival of Lights |
| 50% | ALL | 3 | Beginning and end of 20-Across's motto |
| 50% | SUNDOWN | 7 | End of the day |