| 100% | ALARM | 5 | First sound of the day, for many |
| 81% | MORN | 4 | First half of the day, for short |
| 80% | ALARM | 5 | First sound of the workday, for many |
| 76% | MORN | 4 | Bright first part of the day, for short |
| 76% | FRIDAY | 6 | Last day of the work week for many |
| 76% | SAT | 3 | First day of the weekend, for short |
| 74% | LABORDAYWEEKEND | 15 | First three-day break of the school year for many |
| 73% | BRUNCH | 6 | Portmanteau term for first two meals of the day |
| 73% | MON | 3 | First day of the work week usually, for short |
| 73% | THREE | 5 | Number of days the first Thanksgiving was celebrated for |
| 72% | JOHNSON | 7 | He was US president for the first 20 days of 1969 |
| 70% | SLEEP | 5 | What newborns do for most of the day |
| 70% | FIRE | 4 | ___ drill, safety exercise and one of the many reasons why school could be out for the day |
| 70% | HRS | 3 | Divisions of the day, for short |
| 70% | BTS | 3 | K-pop group whose single “Dynamite” broke YouTube’s record for the most first-day views of a music video (August, 2020) |
| 69% | KOALA | 5 | Aussie known for sleeping most of the day away |
| 69% | TRIP | 4 | Field ___, excursion that may be one of the many reasons why school could be out for the day |
| 69% | MORN | 4 | Early part of the day, for short |
| 69% | PARENT | 6 | ___-teacher meeting, student performance discussion, and one of the many reasons why school could be out for the day |
| 69% | SHAZAM | 6 | One of the many exclamations improvised by Tobey Maguire when Spider-Man tries web-shooting for the first time |
| 67% | MON | 3 | First day of the week, for short (start to 15a, 30a, 41a, 42a, 47a, 19d, and 22d) |
| 66% | MORN | 4 | Part of the day after dawn, for short |
| 66% | STPETE | 6 | Guinness record holder for the U.S. city with the most consecutive days of sun (768), informally |
| 65% | TUESDAY | 7 | Second part of the workweek, for many |
| 65% | NINE | 4 | Start of the workday, for many |
| 65% | BREAKFAST | 9 | First meal of the day |
| 65% | ONEAM | 5 | First stroke of the day |
| 65% | DAWN | 4 | First light of the day |
| 65% | TETS | 4 | ''Festivals of the first day'' |
| 65% | CSNY | 4 | Initials of the supergroup who performed for the very first time on August 16, 1969, only two days before they performed a Woodstock |