| 100% | ATONE | 5 | When to return from lunch, maybe |
| 60% | ATONE | 5 | When to meet for lunch, maybe |
| 47% | REOPEN | 6 | Come back from lunch, maybe |
| 45% | MEALTIME | 8 | When to have lunch or dinner |
| 45% | MEALTIME | 8 | When to ring a bell, maybe |
| 44% | ECHO | 4 | Return from a trip to the Alps? |
| 44% | SORTED | 6 | From A to Z, maybe |
| 43% | ONEPM | 5 | When lunch ends, maybe |
| 43% | RESET | 5 | Return to zero, maybe |
| 42% | ATMIDDAY | 8 | When many go to lunch |
| 42% | ATNOON | 6 | When many go to lunch |
| 41% | ATONE | 5 | When to meet for lunch, perhaps (2 wds.) |
| 41% | ATNOON | 6 | When one might go to lunch |
| 41% | ADAPT | 5 | Convert from book to screenplay, maybe |
| 41% | DYES | 4 | Goes from blonde to brunette, maybe |
| 41% | MISREADS | 8 | Goes from stem to stern, maybe? |
| 41% | DYE | 3 | Go from blonde to brunette, maybe |
| 41% | DYE | 3 | Change from brunette to blonde, maybe |
| 41% | ASEA | 4 | Traveling from coast to coast, maybe |
| 41% | DYES | 4 | Goes from brown to auburn, maybe |
| 41% | RESEAT | 6 | Move from aisle to window, maybe |
| 41% | REZONE | 6 | Take from commercial to residential, maybe |
| 41% | RIPEN | 5 | Change from green to red, maybe |
| 41% | EMERGE | 6 | Transition from pupa to adult, maybe |
| 41% | LIGHTEN | 7 | Go from brunette to blonde, maybe |
| 41% | REFILLED | 8 | Went from E to F, maybe |
| 41% | RIPENING | 8 | Going from green to yellow, maybe |
| 41% | UNCAP | 5 | Prepare to pour from, maybe |
| 41% | ATONE | 5 | When many office workers return to work |
| 40% | BUSYDAY | 7 | Reason to skip lunch, maybe |