| 100% | EARLYLEAD | 9 | What the front-runner has at the start of a race (2 wds.) |
| 71% | EATUP | 5 | What a cook might say at the start of a meal: 2 wds. |
| 68% | NOTIT | 5 | What some people shout at the start of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 63% | POUNDSIGN | 9 | Symbol used at the start of a hashtag: 2 wds. |
| 62% | TAPE | 4 | What a runner breaks through at the end of a race |
| 56% | TEES | 4 | What golf balls rest on at the start of a hole |
| 55% | PACE | 4 | It's what the lead car at the start of a NASCAR race sets |
| 55% | POSITION | 8 | Pole __, in first position at the start of a race |
| 55% | IWIN | 4 | What the victor might say at the end of the game: 2 wds. |
| 54% | SCATTER | 7 | What players do at the start of a game of tag |
| 54% | ORELSE | 6 | Words at the end of a threat: 2 wds. |
| 53% | TAPE | 4 | What a marathon winner breaks through at the end of a race |
| 52% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 52% | ISEE | 4 | "May ___ you again?" (question at the end of a date): 2 wds. |
| 52% | NOWI | 4 | The start of a prayer, "___ lay me down...": 2 wds. |
| 52% | CLOCKIN | 7 | Punch one's time card at the start of the day: 2 wds. |
| 52% | JOANBENOIT | 10 | US Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame runner who won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 51% | TODO | 4 | Phrase at the top of a task list: 2 wds. |
| 51% | LEWISHAMILTON | 13 | 2017 world champion, British F1 driver, who has started a record number of 220 races for Mercedes: 2 wds. |
| 51% | NOTIT | 5 | Child's shout at the beginning of a game of tag: 2 wds. |
| 51% | OCANADA | 7 | Anthem heard at the start of many hockey games: 2 wds. |
| 51% | ETAL | 4 | Abbreviation at the end of a list of people: 2 wds. |
| 51% | ORSO | 4 | Words at the end of a guesstimate (2 wds.) |
| 50% | LORNASIMPSON | 12 | "Projects 23" photographer who was the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (2 wds.) |
| 50% | STICKSIT | 8 | Nails the landing at the end of a gymnastics routine: 2 wds. |
| 50% | TODO | 4 | Words at the top of a list of uncompleted tasks: 2 wds. |
| 50% | HAILMARY | 8 | Long, desperate pass at the end of a football game: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ALCAPONE | 8 | Gangster at the head of a Prohibition-era crime syndicate: 2 wds. |
| 50% | DEARSANTA | 9 | Start of a letter to the North Pole: 2 wds. |
| 50% | SONICBOOM | 9 | What you hear when a plane breaks the speed of sound: 2 wds. |