| 100% | LATESTAGE | 9 | Toward the end of its run |
| 62% | LATEGAME | 8 | Toward the end of a sports contest |
| 60% | NUB | 3 | Pencil at the end of its life |
| 60% | ONETOGO | 7 | Cry toward the end of a list |
| 60% | ILIAD | 5 | Hector dies near the end of it |
| 60% | HEAR | 4 | "You'll never ___ the end of it" |
| 60% | UAE | 3 | The end of its name is also its natl. airline |
| 59% | TITLEFIGHT | 10 | Someone gets belted at the end of it |
| 59% | PAXROMANA | 9 | Marcus Aurelius’s death marked the end of it |
| 59% | ACTI | 4 | Elphaba sings "Defying Gravity" at the end of it |
| 58% | NUB | 3 | Pencil that's about at the end of its usefulness |
| 57% | EXAM | 4 | Why a student might cram toward the end of the term |
| 57% | SAL | 3 | Nickname that might remove "-vatore" from the end of its full version |
| 57% | MVP | 3 | Chant often heard toward the end of an N.B.A. season |
| 56% | LAX | 3 | Location currently nearing the end of its Midfield Satellite Concourse (MSC) Program, briefly |
| 56% | MENU | 4 | Dessert ___ (what a waiter might hand you toward the end of a meal) |
| 55% | WANTTOGOSTEPHENKING | 19 | End of the quote, and its author |
| 55% | ICHOR | 5 | It ran through the veins of Venus |
| 55% | DATELINE | 8 | It runs down the middle of the Pacific |
| 54% | ERASE | 5 | A good pencil always has an ___r at the end of it for correcting mistakes |
| 54% | MISSISSIPPI | 11 | It runs through the middle of the 66-Across |
| 54% | BLED | 4 | Ran off the end of the page |
| 54% | POLE | 4 | It's the end of the world |
| 54% | BUSDEPOT | 8 | It's the end of the line |
| 54% | TOECAP | 6 | It covers the end of the foot |
| 54% | HEMLINE | 7 | It marks the end of a shift |
| 54% | XYZ | 3 | End run of the alphabet |
| 53% | PAMPLONA | 8 | City famous for its Running of the Bulls |
| 53% | FIRSTWORLDWAR | 13 | The Treaty of Versailles ended it |
| 52% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |