| 100% | TARDY | 5 | Sailor has empty day, being late |
| 40% | THU | 3 | Day when the Last Supper is commemorated: Abbr. |
| 40% | ASLOW | 5 | "It must have been ___ news day" |
| 39% | SPOKANE | 7 | Northwestern city where Father's Day is said to have been born |
| 39% | EACH | 4 | "Live ___ day as if it were your last" |
| 39% | DIN | 3 | __ner is the last meal of the day |
| 39% | OCTOBER | 7 | The last day of this month is Halloween |
| 39% | ANERA | 5 | ''Today is the last day of __ past'': Yeltsin |
| 38% | ONTHEGO | 7 | "He has been ___ all day." (extremely busy): 3 wds. |
| 38% | OCTOBER | 7 | Halloween is on the last day of this month |
| 38% | BEARD | 5 | Benjamin Harrison was the last President to have one |
| 36% | DETROIT | 7 | ___ Lions, another team which has been playing on every Thanksgiving Day |
| 35% | FIJI | 4 | Pacific island where the last eight seasons of "Survivor" have been filmed |
| 35% | ROOM | 4 | The emptier it is, the more of it you have |
| 35% | OCT | 3 | Month whose last day is "spooky," for short |
| 35% | COWBOYS | 7 | Dallas ___, the team which has been playing a match on every Thanksgiving Day |
| 35% | BEEN | 4 | “It is never too late to be what you might have ___” (George Eliot) |
| 35% | LAG | 3 | Be late |
| 35% | WERE | 4 | Are later? |
| 34% | ACED | 4 | After studying day and night regularly he was sure that he had ___ his exam |
| 33% | TRAFFIC | 7 | Driver's excuse for being late |
| 33% | EXCUSES | 7 | Reasons or explanations for being late |
| 33% | INGOODTIME | 10 | With no risk of being late |
| 33% | UTAHANS | 7 | What many Latter-day Saints are |
| 33% | OUR | 3 | "__ Day Will Come" |
| 33% | WERE | 4 | Are, later? |
| 33% | SLOP | 4 | Waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand |
| 32% | BOSUN | 5 | Sailor has huge cake outside |
| 32% | TART | 4 | Sailor has time for cake |
| 32% | PANAMA | 6 | Country that issued its only banknotes in 1941, only to have them withdrawn several days later |