| 100% | THERE | 5 | Consolation beginning and ending |
| 72% | EMS | 3 | Millennium beginning and ending |
| 70% | BEALL | 5 | Beginning and end |
| 68% | EMS | 3 | Beginning and ending of modernism |
| 68% | CEES | 4 | Beginning and ending of colic |
| 68% | SCHWAS | 6 | Beginning and end of "America" |
| 67% | ASH | 3 | Beginning and end of a phoenix |
| 67% | HOME | 4 | Beginning and end of many journeys |
| 66% | ALPHAS | 6 | Beginning and ending of a Greek apologia? |
| 66% | ENS | 3 | Nixon's beginning and end |
| 65% | ALL | 3 | Beginning and end of 20-Across's motto |
| 65% | EMS | 3 | Millennium, at the beginning and end? |
| 64% | JANUS | 5 | Roman god of beginnings and endings |
| 64% | SCHWA | 5 | "America" begins and ends with this |
| 64% | XES | 3 | "Xerox" begins and ends with them |
| 64% | RAGES | 5 | The beginning and end of rampages, fittingly? |
| 63% | TERMINAL | 8 | Where passengers begin and end a journey |
| 63% | XES | 3 | Letters that "Xanax" begins and ends with |
| 63% | ESSES | 5 | What sitcoms always begin and end with? |
| 62% | SEPIA | 5 | Tone of ''The Wizard of Oz'' beginning and end |
| 61% | AROUNDTHEWORLDINATDAYS | 22 | 1873 adventure novel that begins and ends in London |
| 61% | YEAR | 4 | Calendar period that begins and ends with a bang |
| 61% | ALL | 3 | Word that begins and ends the Three Musketeers’ motto |
| 61% | BACH | 4 | "The beginning and end of all music," per Max Reger |
| 61% | ARTOODETOO | 10 | Character seen at the beginning and end of "Star Wars" |
| 60% | RENT | 4 | Tony-winning musical that begins and ends on Christmas Eve |
| 60% | OHIO | 4 | US state that begins and ends with the same letter |
| 60% | NAAN | 4 | Indian flatbread that begins and ends with the letter "N" |
| 60% | EWE | 3 | Female sheep that begins and ends with the letter "E" |
| 59% | TIGHT | 5 | Skinny jeans fit, that begins and ends with the letter "T" |