| 100% | ENDS | 4 | Goes last |
| 100% | CLOSES | 6 | Goes last |
| 100% | END | 3 | Go last |
| 90% | WENT | 4 | Go later? |
| 77% | FINALLAP | 8 | Last go-round |
| 76% | MISSONESCUE | 11 | Go on stage late, perhaps |
| 76% | MISSACUE | 8 | Go out too late, perhaps |
| 73% | CLUBBING | 8 | Going to late-night places to dance |
| 71% | IPO | 3 | Lyft went through it last March |
| 69% | OTS | 3 | Pds. that might cause some Super Bowl parties to go late |
| 69% | OWL | 3 | Night ___ (person who goes to bed late) |
| 68% | GRID | 4 | Go off the ___ ... like the last letter of 8-Across? |
| 68% | SET | 3 | Last word before the starting pistol goes off |
| 66% | BEETHOVEN | 9 | German composer; went deaf in his later years |
| 66% | FAD | 3 | Pokémon Go, in the late 2010s, e.g. |
| 66% | STANLEY | 7 | Brand whose tumblers went viral in late 2023 |
| 66% | NAILBITER | 9 | Contest that goes down to the last second: Hyph. |
| 65% | WASI | 4 | Response to "You were really going wild last night!" |
| 65% | EIGHTBALL | 9 | Last thing to go in a pocket, one hopes |
| 63% | DODO | 4 | Odd-looking bird that went extinct in the late 1600s |
| 61% | IATEIT | 6 | Sheepish response to "Where did the last cookie go?" |
| 61% | MILES | 5 | Frost poem last line: __ to go before I sleep |
| 60% | SHELFLIFE | 9 | How long food lasts before going out of date |
| 60% | STAY | 4 | ___ up late (don't go to bed on time) |
| 60% | WALLPAPER | 9 | *"Either that ___ goes, or I do" (Oscar Wilde's reputed last words) |
| 57% | CAME | 4 | ___ and went (lasted only briefly) |
| 56% | AMYMADIGAN | 10 | "Gone Baby Gone" actress who plays Donna Burr in "The Last Full Measure" (2 wds.) |
| 56% | ROADS | 5 | ''Where we're going we don't need __'' (''Back to the Future'' last line) |
| 56% | ETTAJAMES | 9 | R&B singer of At Last and I'd Rather Go Blind |
| 55% | MIKE | 4 | ___ Wheeler, Nancy's younger brother who later goes on to date Eleven |