| 100% | DAYS | 4 | Time of confusion, we hear |
| 76% | DAYS | 4 | Periods of confusion, we hear |
| 60% | DAYS | 4 | Time of confusion, say |
| 60% | DAYS | 4 | Times of confusion, say |
| 56% | DAYS | 4 | Time of confusion, by the sound of it |
| 53% | SENILE | 6 | We hear ocean adjoined river of old |
| 52% | ARBORDAY | 8 | Time of the year when we celebrate trees |
| 50% | HST | 3 | Time setting of US island state |
| 50% | DEC | 3 | Time just ahead of us: abbr. |
| 49% | SITE | 4 | Location of vision, we hear |
| 49% | PLACE | 5 | Location of fish, we hear |
| 49% | HART | 4 | Creature of compassion, we hear |
| 49% | HART | 4 | Animal of compassion, we hear |
| 49% | TEA | 3 | Drink of character, we hear |
| 49% | CACHE | 5 | Store of money, we hear |
| 47% | EON | 3 | US spelling of an extremely long period of time |
| 46% | ERA | 3 | ___ of Good Feelings (unity-inspired time in US history) |
| 45% | HST | 3 | Time zone of a US Pacific island |
| 44% | MARTHAGRAHAM | 12 | US choreographer named Dancer of the Century by Time magazine in 1998 |
| 44% | SOME | 4 | Not all of total, we hear |
| 44% | DONALDTRUMP | 11 | US leader who was Time's 2016 Person of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 43% | FDR | 3 | Initials of the only US president to be elected four times |
| 43% | OOZE | 4 | Primordial material that some time ago we all apparently came out of |
| 42% | FDR | 3 | Initials of the US president who was elected four times |
| 42% | EST | 3 | Eastern time zone of the US |
| 42% | ROBERTJORDAN | 12 | Late US author of the series of fantasy novels The Wheel of Time |
| 41% | PAIL | 4 | Container of little colour, we hear |
| 41% | OUR | 3 | "We had the time of ___ lives!" |
| 41% | OUR | 3 | "We had the time of ___ lives" |
| 41% | PANES | 5 | Windows are nuisances we hear |