| 100% | TARDY | 5 | The first dray, terribly late |
| 55% | DEALT | 5 | Traded first diamonds terribly late |
| 52% | DICTIONARY | 10 | It has the first & last word |
| 50% | SITKA | 5 | First capital of the Last Frontier |
| 50% | RAISA | 5 | Last First Lady of the USSR |
| 49% | CRESCENT | 8 | It's seen in the first or last quarter |
| 49% | SCHWA | 5 | Either the first or last vowel sound in "Alaska" |
| 48% | ALL | 3 | First and last word of the Musketeers' motto |
| 48% | HALFMOON | 8 | First or last quarter in the lunar cycle |
| 48% | JIMI | 4 | First name of the last performer at Woodstock |
| 47% | XXXXX | 5 | Shape of the first and last letters in the Subway logo |
| 47% | RAISA | 5 | Last First Lady of the U.S.S.R. |
| 47% | ALL | 3 | First and last word of the Three Musketeers' motto |
| 46% | EVANS | 5 | Chris ___, "Captain America: The First Avenger" actor with a plural last name |
| 46% | HOYT | 4 | First or last name in the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 46% | POE | 3 | First name of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" character Dameron |
| 46% | TEARGAS | 7 | First World War weapon later prohibited by the Geneva Protocol |
| 46% | ARNOLD | 6 | First and last name in the cast of "True Lies" |
| 46% | RENEE | 5 | First name of the alphabetically last Best Actress Oscar winner |
| 46% | ERIE | 4 | Lake with the same first and last letter |
| 46% | ISRAEL | 6 | The last word of "The First Noel" |
| 46% | APPETIT | 7 | Last word before the first bite |
| 46% | KNIGHT | 6 | Start on the first letter and finish on the last after 23 moves |
| 45% | EECUMMINGS | 10 | "... the truth more first than sun, more last than star" |
| 45% | HUMBERT | 7 | Literary character with the same first and last name |
| 45% | THELEFT | 7 | Wes Craven's first flick The Last House on __ |
| 44% | DEC | 3 | First month after fall or last month of the year, for short |
| 44% | NONE | 4 | First pronoun in the last paragraph of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address |
| 44% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 44% | PARIS | 5 | Last stop of the first Tour de France |