100% | AZOIC | 5 | Geologic period before evidence of life, now called the Hadean Eon |
32% | CHILDHOOD | 9 | Period of life before adolescence |
31% | ADVENT | 6 | The period of four Sundays before Christmas |
31% | SILURIAN | 8 | Geologic period between the Ordovician and Devonian periods of the Palaeozoic era |
30% | AZOIC | 5 | Before the appearance of life |
30% | HOUR | 4 | Golden ___, period of time before the day ends |
29% | DEVONIAN | 8 | Fourth period of the Palaeozoic era of geologic time |
29% | ORDOVICIAN | 10 | Second period of the Palaeozoic era of geologic time |
29% | AUTUMNAL | 8 | Relating to the period of the year before winter |
29% | EOCENE | 6 | Second epoch of the Palaeogene period in the geologic timescale |
29% | TIME | 4 | Proctor's call at the end of an exam period |
28% | BRITISHENGLISH | 14 | Dialect that was called 22-Across before the age of colonialism |
27% | REALNUMBER | 10 | Concept that was called 36-Across before research into the square root of negatives |
27% | EPOCH | 5 | Subdivision of the geologic time scale longer than an age and shorter than a period |
26% | SEE | 3 | Call the bet of |
26% | EON | 3 | Period of time from the Greek word for "life" |
26% | AVEO | 4 | Chevy that's now called the Sonic |
26% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the country now called Myanmar |
26% | JURASSIC | 8 | Geologic period within the Mesozoic era |
26% | ERAS | 4 | Geologic periods such as the Mesozoic |
25% | RINGINGTRU | 10 | Calling the author of "In Cold Blood"? |
25% | LATECAREER | 10 | Phase of life before retirement |
25% | RILEY | 5 | The life of ___ |
25% | ENVY | 4 | Gore Vidal called this "the central fact of American life" |
25% | CABLE | 5 | "___ Girls," Spanish language period drama series about the lives of four young women working in telecommunications in the 1920s |
25% | SURGEONSPHOTO | 13 | Supposed evidence of the 38-Across |
25% | OHIO | 4 | State called the "Mother of Presidents" |
25% | RUTH | 4 | Slugger called the Sultan of Swat |
25% | JOHNSNOW | 8 | Physician called the father of epidemiology |
25% | ATTILA | 6 | Barbarian called the "Scourge of God" |