| 100% | THIRD | 5 | Time that's "the charm" |
| 71% | TREND | 5 | Thing that’s in, for the time being |
| 70% | FALSE | 5 | Test answer that's right about half the time |
| 70% | UNSER | 5 | Family that's won the Indy 500 nine times |
| 69% | NEVER | 5 | With 6-Across, "That's the last time I'll do that!" |
| 69% | ANCIENTREEK | 11 | Stench that's hung around since the time of Hippocrates? |
| 67% | IDAHO | 5 | State that's split between the Pacific and Mountain time zones |
| 66% | OREO | 4 | Snack that's the most-used brand name in New York Times crosswords |
| 66% | ODOR | 4 | Indication that it's time to take out the trash |
| 66% | ODOR | 4 | Sign that it's time to take out the trash |
| 66% | ODORS | 5 | Signs that it's time to take out the trash |
| 66% | NOON | 4 | Time that reads the same forward and backward |
| 64% | SUNS | 4 | Team that's made the NBA playoffs 29 times but never won the championship |
| 63% | CHESSCLOCK | 10 | *Game timer that may implement the Fischer method |
| 63% | BACKINBLACK | 11 | AC/DC album that's one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time |
| 63% | WITHOUTADOUBT | 13 | Third time's the charm: "Will Ruby go to prom with me?" |
| 63% | SECONDCOUSIN | 12 | Time that's relative? |
| 63% | ANTZ | 4 | Movie that came out about the same time as "A Bug's Life" |
| 62% | PRINT | 5 | "All the News That's Fit to ___" (New York Times slogan) |
| 62% | TRY | 3 | "These are the times that __ men's souls": Paine |
| 62% | ENO | 3 | Brian who's the subject of a documentary that's different every time it's screened |
| 62% | PEAK | 4 | Like times that are the most expensive |
| 62% | STD | 3 | The S in a time-zone abbr. |
| 62% | MESH | 4 | Surgical item often used in hernia repair that's at times intentionally left in the body |
| 62% | ERA | 3 | Time period that's often the savior of many crossword constructors (as in this instance) |
| 61% | NOON | 4 | Time that's a palindrome |
| 61% | ELLEN | 5 | Tweeter of a selfie that's the fifth-most-retweeted tweet of all time |
| 61% | PAN | 3 | Flash in the ___ (something that's popular for a short time) |
| 61% | PAINE | 5 | "These are the times that try men's souls" writer |
| 61% | FUTURE | 6 | The time ahead, that which is to come |