| 100% | WALKOUTON | 9 | Leave abruptly, angrily and before the end |
| 41% | ABORT | 5 | Cancel before the end of the countdown |
| 40% | FINALPHASE | 10 | Part of a project just before the end |
| 40% | STORMIN | 7 | Arrive angrily and abruptly |
| 40% | PAROLE | 6 | It may come before the end of a sentence |
| 39% | PAROLED | 7 | Out before the term ends |
| 39% | TBD | 3 | Like postseason matchups before the end of the season: Abbr. |
| 39% | OBLATE | 6 | Squeezed at the ends, as leaves |
| 38% | SALAD | 5 | Leaves before the entrée |
| 38% | EXAM | 4 | What often takes place right before the end of a semester |
| 38% | PAWN | 4 | One standing before the king and queen |
| 38% | TRAGIC | 6 | Like the ending of "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 38% | STRAY | 5 | Leave the straight and narrow |
| 38% | ERR | 3 | Leave the straight and narrow |
| 38% | TEA | 3 | Leaves before paying the check? |
| 38% | SALAD | 5 | Leaves before the entree, maybe |
| 38% | CUTSSHORT | 9 | Ends before the scheduled time |
| 38% | WHEREAREMYKEYS | 14 | . . . before leaving the house |
| 38% | OMOO | 4 | Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" |
| 37% | LAP | 3 | To the end of the pool and back |
| 37% | TOMB | 4 | Site at the end of "Romeo and Juliet" |
| 37% | SLEEPER | 7 | In the end, hesitates and peels back earring |
| 37% | HOUR | 4 | Golden ___, period of time before the day ends |
| 37% | ATRA | 4 | Gillette razor brand before the Mach 3 and Fusion |
| 37% | PACTEN | 6 | Sun Devils' conference, before the Buffaloes and Utes joined |
| 36% | WANTTOGOSTEPHENKING | 19 | End of the quote, and its author |
| 36% | RAGES | 5 | The beginning and end of rampages, fittingly? |
| 36% | LOCKSUP | 7 | Secures the door before leaving |
| 36% | AROUND | 6 | On the right and left |
| 36% | DRINKLIKEA | 10 | Before the bottom half of a 7-Down, tipple and then some |