| 100% | LABOR | 5 | With 9-Across, symbolic end of summer |
| 67% | LABORDAY | 8 | Symbolic end of summer |
| 61% | BARACK | 6 | With 9 Across, winner of 2008 |
| 56% | THOMAS | 6 | With 9 Down and 71 Across, source of quote |
| 53% | NIXON | 5 | With 9-Across, it ended with Watergate |
| 52% | LINE | 4 | With 14 Across, payoff at the end of a joke |
| 52% | MAPLE | 5 | With 9-Across, noted product of Vermont |
| 49% | FIRST | 5 | With 9-Across, part one of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines |
| 48% | SANTA | 5 | With 9 Across, Silicon Valley city |
| 48% | ITALO | 5 | With 9 Across, Indo-European subgroup |
| 48% | LABORDAYWEEKEND | 15 | Traditional end of summer |
| 47% | LABOR | 5 | ___ Day (unofficial end of summer) |
| 47% | LABORDAYWEEKEND | 15 | The unofficial end of summer |
| 47% | OMAR | 4 | With 9 Across, Streisand's ''Funny Girl'' spouse |
| 46% | SEDER | 5 | With 7-Across, holder of symbolic foods on Passover |
| 46% | BLA | 3 | With 4- & 9-Across, sports news of 1919 |
| 46% | CHARLES | 7 | With 9-Across, N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer known as "the Round Mound of Rebound" |
| 46% | EDU | 3 | End of 34 Across' URL |
| 46% | THEISLEY | 8 | With 9-Down, group with a 1962 hit version of 39-/41-/ 42-Across |
| 44% | ANDMILESTOGO | 12 | With 63-Across, ending lines of a poem by 72-Across |
| 44% | PEE | 3 | With 9-Down, river of the Carolinas |
| 44% | BEL | 3 | With 9-Down, "The Fresh Prince of ___" |
| 44% | VIRGO | 5 | Sign of summer's end |
| 43% | YOU | 3 | End of a song at parties with candles |
| 43% | WORDFOR | 7 | With 62-Across, end of the query |
| 43% | DIFFERENCE | 10 | With 113-Across, end of the definition |
| 43% | ANOTHERDAY | 10 | End of the end of "Gone With the Wind" |
| 43% | YOU | 3 | Homophone of 9-Across that shares no letters with it |
| 43% | AFT | 3 | End of a ship with views of the wake |
| 43% | TEE | 3 | With 51-Across, end of the London blitz? |