| 100% | LENORE | 6 | Classic verse that begins "Ah, broken is the golden bowl!" |
| 47% | MYWAY | 5 | Classic song that begins "And now the end is near" |
| 43% | ANNABELLEE | 10 | Classic poem that begins "It was many and many a year ago / In a kingdom by the sea" |
| 42% | MYWAY | 5 | Sinatra classic that begins "And now, the end is near" |
| 41% | STANDBYME | 9 | King classic that begins, "When the night has come / And the land is dark" |
| 40% | MYWAY | 5 | Classic Frank Sinatra song that begins, "And now, the end is near" (2 wds.) |
| 37% | ODETOMAN | 8 | Sophocles tribute that begins "Numberless are the world's wonders ..." |
| 36% | RICHARDIII | 10 | Shakespeare play that begins "Now is the winter of our discontent" |
| 36% | MYWAY | 5 | Sinatra song that begins, "And now, the end is near": 2 wds. |
| 36% | HEART | 5 | Broken ___, "Operation" game piece that is found in the chest |
| 36% | SYLLABLES | 9 | The units of sound that words are broken up into |
| 36% | THELORAX | 8 | Classic book that begins "At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows ..." |
| 35% | LII | 3 | Shakespeare sonnet that begins "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key" |
| 35% | LOSER | 5 | Beck song that begins "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey" |
| 35% | USSTATES | 8 | E is the only vowel that doesn't begin any of their names |
| 35% | GTOS | 4 | Classic cars that were the first to have Ram Air engines |
| 35% | FLEECE | 6 | Golden ___, mythological woolly object that was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts |
| 35% | MYWAY | 5 | Sinatra standard that begins "And now, the end is near" |
| 34% | CRYIN | 5 | 1993 Aerosmith hit that begins "There was a time / When I was so broken-hearted" |
| 34% | NEHI | 4 | Classic soda brand that is part of the old Chero-Cola product line |
| 34% | CHAI | 4 | Spiced Indian tea that is hidden at the beginning of "chainsaw" |
| 34% | SAWIV | 5 | 2007 horror installment that begins with a microcassette being found in the stomach of the villain |
| 34% | RELAX | 5 | Frankie Goes to Hollywood classic that was once banned by the BBC |
| 34% | BELL | 4 | Instrument that is rung, rung at the beginning of a boxing match |
| 34% | ARCA | 4 | Medieval chest for valuables that is hidden at the beginning of "arcane" |
| 34% | PUR | 3 | Water filter brand that can be found at the beginning of "purple" |
| 33% | COAL | 4 | 31-Across poem that begins, "I / Is the total black, being spoken / From the earth's inside" |
| 33% | RUTH | 4 | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
| 33% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | Classic song that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" [2003, 1970] |
| 33% | HERE | 4 | Word that becomes its opposite when a "T" is added to the beginning |