| 100% | SLOWEST | 7 | Last one in, competitively |
| 73% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | Last one in, say |
| 73% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | Last one in, idiomatically |
| 70% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | Last one in, so they say |
| 70% | ROTTENEGGS | 10 | Last ones in the pool, say |
| 69% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | The last one in, perhaps |
| 66% | USTOUR | 6 | The Beatles had their last one in 1966 |
| 66% | DRAGON | 6 | Raya adventured with the last one in 2021 |
| 62% | SST | 3 | The last one flew in 10/03 |
| 61% | LEOS | 4 | Ones born in late July |
| 60% | LEO | 3 | One born in late July, astrologically |
| 60% | OUTRO | 5 | The one in "Layla" lasts 3 minutes 48 seconds |
| 58% | BABYBOOMER | 10 | One born in the late 1940s or '50s |
| 58% | ROTTENEGG | 9 | "Last one in's a ___!" |
| 57% | EIGHTBALL | 9 | Last thing to go in a pocket, one hopes |
| 57% | ERA | 3 | One of 10 in Taylor Swift's latest tour |
| 57% | EGG | 3 | "Last one in's a rotten ___!" |
| 57% | EGG | 3 | "Last one in's a rotten __!" |
| 56% | REVOLVINGDOOR | 13 | Job position in which no one lasts long |
| 55% | APOSTLE | 7 | One of 12 depicted in da Vinci's "The Last Supper" |
| 54% | APOSTLE | 7 | One of 12 depicted in Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" |
| 54% | MUGSHOT | 7 | One of many released by the Fulton County Jail in late August |
| 54% | LEOXI | 5 | Pope whose pontificate lasted less than one month in 1605 |
| 53% | EDITORS | 7 | Ones getting the last word in |
| 53% | ACT | 3 | One of five in Karl Kraus's play "The Last Days of Mankind" |
| 53% | EMME | 4 | One-named model who was a spokesperson for Revlon in the late 1990s |
| 52% | MENOPAUSE | 9 | Event typically occurring in one's late 40s or early 50s |
| 51% | SLAVE | 5 | 27-Across was the last US president to own one while in Office |
| 50% | IBM | 3 | 49-Down, with each letter shifted one place later in the alphabet (coincidence?) |
| 50% | POEM | 4 | "The Bronx No Thonx" was one from 1931, later apologized for in 1964 |