| 100% | HALFMOON | 8 | First or last quarter in the lunar cycle |
| 57% | CRESCENT | 8 | It's seen in the first or last quarter |
| 55% | HOYT | 4 | First or last name in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 49% | SCHWA | 5 | Either the first or last vowel sound in "Alaska" |
| 47% | PHASE | 5 | Stage in the lunar cycle |
| 42% | ARNOLD | 6 | First and last name in the cast of "True Lies" |
| 42% | NEAP | 4 | Lunar cycle adjective in the ''Farmer's Almanac'' |
| 41% | SYNE | 4 | Last word in the first song of the year |
| 41% | NEAP | 4 | Occurrence in the moon's first quarter |
| 41% | AZALEA | 6 | Last flower in the first section of a botanical dictionary |
| 41% | NONE | 4 | Last word in the first verse of "Old Mother Hubbard" |
| 40% | BABYBOOMER | 10 | One born in the late 1940s or '50s |
| 40% | SEPT | 4 | Last mo. in the 3rd quarter |
| 40% | ARK | 3 | Last word in the title of the first Indiana Jones movie |
| 40% | ROAM | 4 | Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range" |
| 40% | OMEGA | 5 | Last letter in the Greek alphabet, or a luxury watch brand |
| 40% | GENX | 4 | Group born in the late '60s or early '70s |
| 39% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 39% | FRESHMAN | 8 | Student in the first year of high school or college |
| 38% | DOROTHY | 7 | First name of actor Dandridge or the girl in Oz |
| 38% | FINALISTS | 9 | The last competitors in a contest or tournament |
| 37% | SHANE | 5 | 1953 film or the last word spoken in it |
| 37% | TAU | 3 | First letter in the fourth quarter of the Greek alphabet |
| 36% | XXXXX | 5 | Shape of the first and last letters in the Subway logo |
| 36% | MEMPHIS | 7 | City in Tennessee... or the first capital city of ancient Egypt |
| 36% | TET | 3 | First day of the Lunar New Year, in Vietnam |
| 36% | SCHWA | 5 | First or last ultra sound? |
| 36% | NONE | 4 | First pronoun in the last paragraph of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address |
| 36% | IMPEACHMENT | 11 | Procedure against a government official in the UK first recorded in 1376 that last occurred in 1806 |
| 35% | IONE | 4 | Girl's name in which the last three letters are equivalent to the first? |