| 100% | NICEGUYS | 8 | They "finish last," per the title of Leo Durocher's autobiography |
| 45% | NICE | 4 | "___ Guys Finish Last" (1975 Leo Durocher autobiography) |
| 38% | ENDGAME | 7 | Apt title of the last episode of The Queen's Gambit |
| 38% | SHUT | 4 | Last word in the title of Kubrick's last film |
| 37% | NICE | 4 | Like guys who finish last, per Durocher |
| 36% | CHASER | 6 | Drink that follows a hard-liquor shot ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| 36% | USESUP | 6 | Finishes the last of |
| 35% | CHURCHBELLS | 11 | Chimes that beckon parishioners on Sunday morning ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ALLISTRUE | 9 | Original title of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (the latter not used until the First Folio in 1623) |
| 35% | SAYHEY | 6 | Title for the autobiography of Willie Mays |
| 34% | ABCS | 4 | Z is the last of them |
| 34% | DEER | 4 | Natty Bumppo’s quarry, per the last of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales |
| 34% | STORYTELLER | 11 | Someone who narrates a fairy tale ... or the title of Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| 34% | OLIVERREED | 10 | Actor whose first name is the title of a Best Picture he co-starred in, and whose last name is that film's director |
| 34% | OTT | 3 | Subject of Durocher's "Nice guys finish last" sentiment |
| 34% | OTT | 3 | Target of Durocher's "Nice guys finish last" sentiment |
| 34% | YESES | 5 | The last sentence in "Ulysses" has nine of them |
| 34% | TUDORS | 6 | Elizabeth I was the last of them |
| 34% | TSARS | 5 | Nicholas II was the last of them |
| 33% | MSGR | 4 | Title of the late Georg Ratzinger, elder brother of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, briefly |
| 33% | JEDI | 4 | Last word in the titles of two "Star Wars" movies |
| 33% | ARK | 3 | Last word in the title of the first Indiana Jones movie |
| 33% | KILL | 4 | Last word in the titles of two 1980s James Bond films |
| 33% | USEUP | 5 | Finish off, as the last bit of toothpaste: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SEN | 3 | Former title for four of the last seven VPs |
| 33% | TSARS | 5 | Nicholas II was the last of them in Russia |
| 33% | WABASH | 6 | River in the title of Indiana's state song |
| 32% | CITIZENKING | 11 | New title of a 1941 classic movie after discovering the Christmas gift, Rosebud, was really meant for the "It's Too Late" singer? |
| 32% | SLUMDOG | 7 | Coined word in the title of 2008's Best Picture |
| 32% | OPERA | 5 | Word in the title of Broadway's longest-running show |