| 100% | AMBASSADOR | 10 | Todd C. Chapman assumed this office in Brasilia at the end of March this year |
| 41% | GROVER | 6 | Blue Muppet in "The Monster at the End of This Book" |
| 40% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | CRAMPINGUP | 10 | In pain at the end of a race, say |
| 38% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 37% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 37% | PROMS | 5 | Big dances held at the end of the school year |
| 37% | EXAM | 4 | What you give at the end of an academic year |
| 37% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | NSFW | 4 | Initialism meaning "Be wary of looking at this in the office" |
| 36% | LURE | 4 | This might be at the end of the line |
| 36% | PROM | 4 | Dance at the end of senior year |
| 36% | CLEM | 4 | Alt-country band "___ Snide" who released the album "Forever Just Beyond" in March of this year |
| 36% | NOOSE | 5 | This may be at the end of one's rope |
| 36% | SURRENDER | 9 | To give in, especially at the end of a battle |
| 36% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | Find this at the end of a rainbow |
| 36% | MORENDO | 7 | In music, a gradual decrescendo at the end of a cadence |
| 36% | ION | 3 | The last of these Saturn passenger cars was built in March 2007 at GM's Spring Hill, TN, assembly plant |
| 35% | EXAM | 4 | A student takes this at the end of semester |
| 35% | VOWEL | 5 | There's one at the end of this clue |
| 35% | TYPO | 4 | There's one at the end of this club |
| 35% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | #1 song at the end of October in 1962 |
| 35% | EXAM | 4 | Test at the end of an academic year, with a name originating from Latin |
| 35% | TAKINGS | 7 | Money in the till at the end of the day |
| 35% | DTEN | 4 | Square at the end of the fourth row in Battleship |
| 35% | ERIE | 4 | Lake at the end of a canal finished in 1825 |
| 35% | CLOSED | 6 | Came in to pitch at the end of a game |
| 35% | NOCLUE | 6 | "Haven't the foggiest!" … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | STARTS | 6 | Opposite of ends, ironically found at the end of this puzzle |
| 35% | TIPOUT | 6 | Distribute cash at the end of a shift, in restaurant lingo |