| 100% | MORN | 4 | Start of the day, in poetry |
| 67% | ILUVU | 5 | Start of the song title in the 25 Across clue, but imagine it on Valentine's Day candy |
| 61% | BREAKFAST | 9 | First meal of the day, in the morning |
| 59% | OER | 3 | Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 59% | SCROD | 5 | Catch of the day, say, in New England |
| 56% | AGO | 3 | In the days of yore |
| 56% | HAALAND | 7 | Deb ___, secretary of the interior starting in 2021 |
| 56% | MCCARTHY | 8 | Speaker of the House starting in January 2023 |
| 56% | MTWTF | 5 | Days of the week in a calendar heading |
| 55% | KAZUOISHIGURO | 13 | "The Remains of the Day" author, knighted in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 55% | JOEEGG | 6 | Peter Nichols play, A Day in the Death of __ |
| 55% | LAZE | 4 | Spend all day in front of the TV, perhaps |
| 55% | TWELFTH | 7 | In song, the last day of Christmas |
| 55% | ARNOLDS | 7 | Name of the diner in Happy Days |
| 54% | DEER | 4 | Start of a letter in the form of a rebus |
| 54% | IREAD | 5 | First words of the Beatles' "A Day in the Life" |
| 54% | STALINERA | 9 | Setting for "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" |
| 54% | JOEEGG | 6 | Peter Nichols wrote A Day in the Death of him |
| 54% | ULYSSES | 7 | Novel about one day in the life of three Dubliners |
| 54% | IVAN | 4 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of ___ Denisovich” |
| 54% | NYE | 3 | C.E.O. of the Planetary Society starting in 2010 |
| 54% | TRENTON | 7 | Capital of the U.S. for 54 days in 1784 |
| 54% | JONAH | 5 | He spent three days in the belly of a whale |
| 54% | FINLEY | 6 | Owner of the A's in their glory days, Charlie ___ |
| 54% | FRIDAY | 6 | Day of the week that starts the Sabbath |
| 54% | IDES | 4 | Day of the full moon, in old Rome |
| 54% | MONDAY | 6 | Day of the week for Thanksgiving in Canada |
| 54% | MONDAY | 6 | The first day of Lent in Greece: Clean __ |
| 54% | SERVE | 5 | The starting hit in a game of tennis |
| 54% | LEAPYEAR | 8 | Period of 366 days in the Gregorian calendar |