| 100% | APPEAR | 6 | Come before the court |
| 72% | ARRAIGN | 7 | Call before the court |
| 66% | ATBAR | 5 | Before the court, in lawyerspeak: 2 wds. |
| 66% | TIS | 3 | It comes before the season |
| 66% | ALA | 3 | It comes before the carte |
| 66% | CALM | 4 | What comes before the storm |
| 66% | RAILCAR | 7 | It comes before the caboose |
| 65% | ATBAR | 5 | Like a case before the court |
| 65% | EGG | 3 | Did it come before the chicken? |
| 65% | MENU | 4 | Carte that comes before the course |
| 65% | TRIP | 4 | It often comes before the fall |
| 64% | EGG | 3 | It may have come before the chicken |
| 64% | EGG | 3 | What might have come before the chicken? |
| 64% | EGG | 3 | It came before the chicken, some say |
| 64% | STARTER | 7 | Dish that comes before the main course? |
| 64% | EGG | 3 | Some say it came before the Chicken |
| 64% | ANS | 3 | It comes before the ques. on "Jeopardy!" |
| 64% | ECU | 3 | European Currency Unit, came before the euro |
| 64% | MEET | 4 | Come before, as the eyes |
| 63% | EGG | 3 | Did it come before the chicken, or after? |
| 63% | EGG | 3 | It came before the chicken (or maybe after?) |
| 63% | CELLAR | 6 | Salt __, glass dish that came before the shaker |
| 63% | SRS | 3 | Ones who came before the juniors, for short |
| 62% | EARLY | 5 | Before the sun comes up, perhaps |
| 62% | PAROLE | 6 | It may come before the end of a sentence |
| 58% | ATBAR | 5 | Case ___ (before the court) |
| 53% | FOR | 3 | Word that comes before Dummies in the titles of well over 300 books |
| 50% | OPT | 3 | Word that can come before in or out and comes from the Latin for "to select" |
| 48% | WILLIAMHOWARDTA | 15 | Who said "Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever" |
| 48% | WRITS | 5 | Orders of the court |