| 100% | FORGOTTEN | 9 | Lost to the sands of time |
| 55% | UNTIL | 5 | Up to the time of |
| 55% | LIFESPAN | 8 | The length of time from birth to death |
| 54% | SANDS | 5 | ___ of time (idiom relating to the hourglass) |
| 54% | SANDS | 5 | ___ of time (idiom related to the hourglass) |
| 54% | HOROLOGY | 8 | Name given to the study of time |
| 53% | LIFESPAN | 8 | The length of time an animal is expected to live |
| 53% | MEDIEVAL | 8 | Pertaining to the time of castles and knights |
| 51% | COLOR | 5 | 1997 addition to the front page of The New York Times |
| 51% | PERSIA | 6 | "Prince of ___: The Sands of Time" (2010 fantasy film) |
| 50% | NIGHTFALL | 9 | The time of day when dusk comes to an end |
| 49% | RIGGS | 5 | Bobby who lost to Billie Jean King in tennis' "Battle of the Sexes" |
| 49% | BORIS | 5 | Spassky who lost to Bobby Fischer in chess’s Match of the Century |
| 49% | YEAR | 4 | Length of time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun |
| 49% | PERSIA | 6 | "Prince of ___: The Sands of Time," fantasy film starring Jake Gyllenhaal |
| 49% | TWO | 3 | Number of times lightning struck Apollo 12 on its way to the moon |
| 49% | AGAMOTTO | 8 | Device used to hold the time stone, Eye of __ |
| 49% | RIGGS | 5 | Bobby who lost to Billie Jean in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match |
| 48% | OVERSCAN | 8 | TV ability to enlarge and lose edges of the picture |
| 48% | REDS | 4 | Film that lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Chariots of Fire" |
| 48% | LEA | 3 | Actress Seydoux of the upcoming Bond movie "No Time to Die" |
| 48% | ANA | 3 | De Armas of the upcoming Bond film “No Time to Die” |
| 48% | DEWIER | 6 | Like grass in the morning, compared to other times of day |
| 47% | TRACK | 5 | "Lose ___ of the time" |
| 47% | MLK | 3 | Reformer from the time of D.D.E. to L.B.J. |
| 47% | IVE | 3 | "___ lost count of the number of times ..." |
| 46% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 46% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 46% | PERSIA | 6 | "Prince of ___: The Sands of Time" (Jake Gyllenhaal film based on a video game franchise) |
| 46% | MIDDLEAGE | 9 | Crisis time, for some ... or a hint to each of the circled words |