| 100% | SEMI | 4 | One leg of a competition before the final |
| 52% | DRYRUN | 6 | Rehearsal of a performance before the real one |
| 49% | OLDSMOBILE | 10 | The final one came out of a Lansing plant in April 2004 |
| 49% | GROSCHEN | 8 | One hundredth of a schilling in Austria before the arrival of the euro |
| 49% | RUNS | 4 | Does the final leg of a triathlon |
| 49% | RAN | 3 | Did the final leg of a triathlon |
| 49% | RAN | 3 | Completed the final leg of a triathlon |
| 48% | LAP | 3 | One leg of a motorsport race |
| 47% | SWUM | 4 | Like one leg of a triathlon |
| 47% | RAN | 3 | Did one leg of a triathlon |
| 46% | RAN | 3 | Did one leg of a triathlon, say |
| 46% | RAN | 3 | Competed in one leg of a triathlon |
| 45% | FENCE | 5 | Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon |
| 45% | CHAPELHILL | 10 | One leg of the Research Triangle |
| 45% | RAN | 3 | Took part in the final leg of a triathlon |
| 44% | RANK | 4 | Position one gets at the end of a competition |
| 44% | SWAM | 4 | Did one leg of an Ironman competition |
| 42% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | The final moments before a significant event |
| 42% | MLXV | 4 | A year before the Battle of Hastings |
| 42% | LEMANS | 6 | Locale for one leg of the Triple Crown of Motorsport |
| 42% | BAA | 3 | Word repeated before "black sheep," in a nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 42% | REHEARSAL | 9 | Practice of a performance before the real thing |
| 42% | PREGAP | 6 | Part of a CD before the first track |
| 42% | SETUP | 5 | Part of a joke before the punch line |
| 41% | ECARTE | 6 | In ballet, a position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body |
| 41% | REP | 3 | One out of a bunch of leg presses, say |
| 41% | OUTBOUND | 8 | The first leg of a return journey |
| 41% | ROCKIGUANA | 10 | The Jamaican ___, a lizard that is one of the rarest creatures, and was declared extinct before being found again in 1970: 2 wds. |
| 41% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Last leg of a race ... or a hint to the circled letters |
| 40% | STRADDLED | 9 | Put one leg either side of a horse |