| 100% | GOALIE | 6 | Last line of defense |
| 93% | GOALIE | 6 | Last line of defense in soccer |
| 93% | GOALIES | 7 | Last lines of defense in soccer |
| 72% | ABATIS | 6 | Certain line of defense |
| 70% | ADE | 3 | Line of defense |
| 70% | FORTS | 5 | Line of defense? |
| 69% | ABATIS | 6 | Line of defense, once |
| 68% | CITYSTATEANDZIP | 15 | Last line of many addresses |
| 67% | WHOAMI | 6 | Last line of many a riddle |
| 66% | TRENCH | 6 | Soldier's line of defense |
| 65% | ORDOESITEXPLODE | 15 | Last line of the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem" |
| 64% | CIA | 3 | ''The Nation's first line of defense'' |
| 63% | MOAT | 4 | First line of defense built around a castle |
| 62% | BOTTOMROW | 9 | Last line of a spreadsheet (as suggested by the shaded squares?) |
| 62% | PAWNS | 5 | They're the front line of defense, in chess |
| 62% | MAGINOT | 7 | French war minister with a namesake line of defense |
| 61% | TRIPWIRE | 8 | Military force significantly smaller than its subsequent line of defense |
| 56% | END | 3 | ___ of the line (train's last stop) |
| 55% | SESTET | 6 | Last six lines of a sonnet |
| 52% | SANS | 4 | Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech |
| 52% | TIM | 3 | "And so, as Tiny ___ observed, God bless Us, Every One!" famous last line of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" |
| 50% | HIS | 3 | "You will be ___" (last line of "Wishin' and Hopin'") |
| 48% | ITOOAMAMERICA | 13 | Last line of a poem by 6-Down, which follows the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" (4 wds.) |
| 48% | ELTRAINS | 8 | The 3rd Avenue line was the last of them to operate in Manhattan |
| 48% | PAST | 4 | "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the ___," famous last line of Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" |
| 48% | MOAT | 4 | Onetime means of defense |
| 48% | COHEN | 5 | Clinton secretary of defense |
| 48% | CODAS | 5 | Last lines |
| 48% | ZIP | 3 | City, state, ___ code (last line of a snail mail address, often) |
| 47% | END | 3 | ___ of the line (last train stop) |