| 100% | TAPE | 4 | What a runner breaks through at the finish line |
| 74% | TAPE | 4 | What a runner breaks through at the end of a race |
| 52% | TAPE | 4 | What a marathon winner breaks through at the end of a race |
| 51% | TAPE | 4 | What may be broken at a race's finish line |
| 44% | NEXT | 4 | What a cashier says to the person at the front of the line |
| 43% | YEN | 3 | What a "Y" with a pair of horizontal lines through it is the symbol for |
| 41% | NEXT | 4 | What one at the head of a line likes to hear |
| 41% | IMADEIT | 7 | Triumphant shout at the finish line (3 wds.) |
| 40% | ABBA | 4 | Pop group that broke through at the 1974 Eurovision contest |
| 39% | WON | 3 | Broke the finish line ribbon |
| 38% | NEXT | 4 | At the front of a line |
| 38% | LURE | 4 | Fishing decoy used at the end of a line |
| 38% | CRABBING | 8 | Fishing for crustaceans at the end of a line |
| 38% | TERMINUS | 8 | Final station at the end of a train line |
| 38% | TIS | 3 | Poetic contraction usually at the start of a line |
| 38% | HOOK | 4 | Pointy item at the end of a fishing line |
| 38% | RACED | 5 | Ran for the finish line |
| 37% | BOOTHECLOWN | 11 | What a coulrophobe might do at the circus? |
| 37% | PAW | 3 | What a dog raises at the command "Shake" |
| 37% | RACE | 4 | Run to the finish line, say |
| 37% | YEN | 3 | What a “Y” with two lines through it represents |
| 37% | FIN | 3 | What a fish uses to steer through the water |
| 37% | FORMHERETOETERNITY | 18 | Sign at the end of a really long line? |
| 37% | SLOPE | 5 | What a chairlift drops you at the top of |
| 36% | TIE | 3 | Result when two racers cross the finish line at the same time |
| 36% | STEAL | 5 | What a base runner might do to the next base |
| 36% | PLAYS | 5 | What a kid does at the park with friends, often |
| 36% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 36% | ADAM | 4 | Guy at the front of a long line |
| 36% | HEARSE | 6 | Car at the front of a line, maybe |