| 100% | FREEATLAST | 10 | End of a speech that included the words "1963 is not an end, but a beginning" |
| 42% | BOUGH | 5 | *Main branch of a tree that ends the same as 17a, 19a, 34a and 46d, but does not rhyme |
| 40% | TEAK | 4 | Plant whose name becomes that of a meat product when an s is added to the beginning |
| 40% | CASABLANCA | 10 | 1942 film that ends with the line “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” |
| 38% | ERG | 3 | Unit of work that becomes a word meaning "thus" if you add an O to the end |
| 38% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 38% | PURPLE | 6 | Color that is a blend of blue and red, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "curple" |
| 38% | AGE | 3 | *Birthday candle count...or a word that can be found at the end of 16a, 18a, 21a, 31a, 43a, 35d, and 40d |
| 38% | HTTP | 4 | Beginning of a URL that might be flagged as not secure |
| 38% | BEGINNING | 9 | Doubt is not the end of wisdom, but the __ |
| 38% | UTOPIA | 6 | “A map of the world that does not include ___ is not worth even glancing at”: Oscar Wilde |
| 38% | VAR | 3 | Spelling of a word that's not the usual: Abbr. |
| 37% | ZETA | 4 | Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet |
| 37% | POT | 3 | Container that's said to be at the end of a rainbow |
| 37% | DEAD | 4 | Adjective that might be used hyperbolically at the end of a long day |
| 37% | ROUGH | 5 | That part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short |
| 36% | ABBR | 4 | Letters that may follow some of the clues in the Vox crossword due to it being a small, but not that easy, puzzle |
| 36% | FLAG | 4 | A checkered one is waved at the end of an auto race |
| 36% | ELVISHLIVES | 11 | Claim that a language in "The Lord of the Rings" is not extinct? |
| 36% | APE | 3 | Word that means to imitate someone and is also the name of a primate |
| 36% | BELL | 4 | Instrument that is rung, rung at the beginning of a boxing match |
| 36% | LOGIC | 5 | "___ is the beginning of wisdom ... not the end": Spock |
| 35% | DUSTER | 6 | Feathery cleaner at the end of a stick ... and something that is brushed over furniture while cleaning |
| 35% | INBED | 5 | Words that can be added to the end of any fortune cookie, it's said |
| 35% | PRON | 4 | Part of the speech that is a substitute for a noun, for short |
| 35% | QUEEN | 5 | "___ of the Supermarket," 2009 Bruce Springsteen song that is an ode to a supermarket employee |
| 35% | ORB | 3 | Another word for a sphere, such as the Sun, which is an ___ of light |
| 35% | SEX | 3 | Something that might be in an R-rated movie but not a G-rated one |
| 35% | POPSICLE | 8 | Frozen treat that is assumed to be a portmanteau of the words "pop" and "icicle" |
| 35% | BED | 3 | "Love is not a ___ of roses," phrase that describes the ups and downs of love |