| 100% | LATE | 4 | Past the deadline, as some submissions |
| 57% | DWELL | 5 | Reside, as some people do in the past |
| 52% | LATE | 4 | Past the deadline |
| 52% | OUTOFTIME | 9 | Past the deadline |
| 51% | LATE | 4 | Past the deadline, say |
| 49% | LATE | 4 | Way past the deadline |
| 49% | LATE | 4 | Way past the deadline, say |
| 48% | LATEDATE | 8 | It's almost past the deadline |
| 46% | STALE | 5 | Past the freshness date, as cookies |
| 46% | BYEXTENSION | 11 | Time past the deadline that Brigham Young was granted? |
| 45% | STALE | 5 | Past the freshness date, as potato chips |
| 43% | ONCE | 4 | Some time, in the past |
| 43% | AGO | 3 | Some time ___ (back in the past) |
| 43% | AGO | 3 | Some time ___ (in the indefinite past) |
| 43% | AGO | 3 | Some time ___ (in the recent past) |
| 41% | AWHILEAGO | 9 | Some time in the distant past: 3 wds. |
| 41% | ONCE | 4 | At some time in the past |
| 41% | ONCE | 4 | At some point in the past |
| 41% | AGESAGO | 7 | Quite some time in the past |
| 41% | XXXX | 4 | At some point in the past |
| 41% | TOLDOF | 6 | Described, as something in the past |
| 41% | OLD | 3 | From the past, as a story |
| 41% | OUTSTAYS | 8 | Lingers past, as the welcoming time |
| 40% | DREDGED | 7 | Brought (up), as from the distant past |
| 40% | LONG | 4 | Reaching into the past, as a memory |
| 40% | PALATAL | 7 | Like some consonants, as the nasal "n" |
| 39% | RELIC | 5 | Thing often described redundantly as "of the past" |
| 39% | JUDGED | 6 | Made some scoring decisions, as during the Olympics |
| 38% | BOXED | 5 | Like some wine, as shown in the circled letters |
| 38% | DEJAVU | 6 | Feeling that some describe as a glitch in the Matrix |