| 100% | MIDWINTER | 9 | Day with the fewest hours of daylight |
| 60% | SOLSTICE | 8 | Midsummer day with the longest period of daylight |
| 48% | NOON | 4 | Palindromic hour of the day |
| 47% | SOLSTICE | 8 | Winter __; day with shortest daylight hours |
| 47% | ELAPSE | 6 | Pass, like hours of the day |
| 46% | APR | 3 | Mo. with the 100th day of the year |
| 46% | JUNE | 4 | Month with the longest day of the year |
| 46% | DEC | 3 | Mo. with the shortest day of the year |
| 46% | SEP | 3 | Month with the Day of Peace, for short |
| 45% | DEC | 3 | Month with the shortest day of the year (Abbr.) |
| 45% | LALALAND | 8 | It opens with the number "Another Day of Sun" |
| 45% | DEC | 3 | Winter month with the shortest day of the year (Abbr.) |
| 45% | CALENDAR | 8 | Chart with the days, weeks, and months of a year |
| 44% | PLATDU | 6 | With 42-Down, restaurant dish of the day |
| 44% | AFTER | 5 | With 1-Down, at the end of the day |
| 43% | WEDNESDAY | 9 | Only day of the week with nine letters |
| 43% | YELP | 4 | App with a "Review of the Day" feature |
| 43% | MARIGOLDS | 9 | Bright flowers associated with Day of the Dead |
| 43% | APRIL | 5 | One of the months with only 30 days |
| 43% | APRIL | 5 | First month of the year with 30 days |
| 42% | NPR | 3 | Network with news at the top of each hour |
| 42% | THOR | 4 | God with a day of the week named after him |
| 42% | WEE | 3 | ___ hours (early hours of the day) |
| 41% | PUREST | 6 | With the fewest flaws |
| 41% | OTIS | 4 | Day with the Knights |
| 41% | SATURN | 6 | Planet that shares its namesake with a day of the week |
| 41% | MEME | 4 | Image with two lines of Impact font, in the early days |
| 41% | OSLO | 4 | Capital city that gets as little as six hours of sunlight a day in the winter |
| 41% | LIRPA | 5 | With 1-Across, a normal answer for a totally normal day of the year |
| 40% | TOMB | 4 | ___ of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetery monument that is guarded 24 hours a day) |