| 100% | APOCOPE | 7 | Loss of sounds at the end of a word |
| 70% | BEEP | 4 | Sound at the end of a washing machine's cycle, say |
| 70% | YET | 3 | Word of foreshadowing, at the end of a sentence |
| 70% | AMEN | 4 | Word at the end of a prayer |
| 70% | ORELSE | 6 | Words at the end of a threat |
| 70% | IMFREE | 6 | Words at the end of a sentence? |
| 69% | AMEN | 4 | Word said at the end of a prayer |
| 69% | ELSE | 4 | Word at the end of a vague threat |
| 69% | AMEN | 4 | Word said at the end of a Hail Mary |
| 69% | OVER | 4 | Word at the end of a walkie-talkie conversation |
| 69% | ORELSE | 6 | Words at the end of a threat: 2 wds. |
| 69% | ORSO | 4 | Words at the end of a guesstimate (2 wds.) |
| 69% | HOMEATLAST | 10 | Words spoken at the end of a long day |
| 69% | APHERESIS | 9 | Loss of a sound at the start of a word, as "opossum" to "possum" |
| 68% | OVER | 4 | Word said at the end of a walkie-talkie message |
| 68% | HATETOEATANDRUN | 15 | Apologetic words at the end of a meal |
| 68% | ANDSCENE | 8 | Director's words at the end of a take |
| 67% | CAPISCE | 7 | Word at the end of a sentence to mean "Do you understand?" |
| 67% | HORN | 4 | Sound heard at the end of a period during basketball or hockey games |
| 66% | WRAP | 4 | "That's a ___!" (director's words at the end of a shoot) |
| 61% | BELLS | 5 | Sounds at the end of classes |
| 60% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 60% | POT | 3 | Container of gold at the end of a rainbow |
| 60% | SCORELINE | 9 | Figures of interest at the end of a game? |
| 60% | BRR | 3 | Sound at the end of December, appropriately? |
| 60% | ARFS | 4 | Sounds from the end of a leash |
| 59% | PIN | 3 | One of ten at the end of a bowling lane |
| 59% | OBO | 3 | Letters of negotiation at the end of a Craigslist posting |
| 59% | CREDITS | 7 | Long list of names at the end of a film |
| 59% | MORAL | 5 | A lesson at the end of a fable |