| 100% | BOMBS | 5 | "And the rocket's red glare, the ___ bursting in air ... " |
| 73% | INAIR | 5 | "...And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting ___...": 2 wds. |
| 51% | GLARE | 5 | "And the rocket's red ___ ..." |
| 49% | TOD | 3 | The red fox in Disney's The Fox and the Hound |
| 47% | OXYGEN | 6 | It's in the air and water |
| 46% | ORGS | 4 | Red Cross and the like, in brief |
| 45% | MOONROCKS | 9 | Some are displayed in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum |
| 45% | TNT | 3 | Channel that aired "The Joker's Wild" and "Drop the Mic" in 2019 |
| 45% | FLAG | 4 | Mexico's is green, white, and red, with an eagle in the middle |
| 45% | CLOONEY | 7 | George ___, star of "Ocean's Eleven" and "Up in the Air" |
| 44% | YVESSAINT | 9 | The Y and the S in YSL, French fashion designer |
| 42% | THEWOODS | 8 | In the musical, Little Red and others go into it |
| 42% | HAKEEMOLAJUWON | 14 | Former Rockets center who is the team's all-time leader in points, rebounds, blocks, and steals: 2 wds. |
| 42% | SINUSES | 7 | Air-filled cavities in the face and skull |
| 42% | MIRREN | 6 | She starred in Red, The Queen, and Excalibur |
| 42% | ALHAMBRA | 8 | The red fortress and palace in Granada, Spain |
| 42% | FARO | 4 | Port and resort in the Algarve, S Portugal |
| 42% | AGENA | 5 | The most used upper rocket stage in NASA's history with over 350 launched between 1959 and 1987 |
| 41% | THEODDCOUPLE | 12 | Show about a red sock, a blue sock, and the love they found in the dryer? |
| 41% | SOREL | 5 | Julien —, central character in 1830 Stendhal novel The Red and the Black |
| 41% | KENDRICK | 8 | Actress Anna of "Pitch Perfect" and "Up in the Air" |
| 41% | JUGGLING | 8 | Throwing and rotating three objects in the air |
| 41% | TONIGHT | 7 | Phil Collins sang and drummed In the Air __ |
| 41% | BREATHING | 9 | Taking air in and out of the lungs |
| 41% | RUNATAB | 7 | Be in the red for black and tans? |
| 41% | USD | 3 | Green in the Red, White, and Blue: abbr. |
| 41% | TECHBUBBLE | 10 | It burst in the early two-thousands and sent dot-com stocks tumbling |
| 41% | DAMIANLILLARD | 13 | Trail Blazers point guard who made series-ending buzzer beaters against the Rockets in 2014 and the Thunder in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MIRREN | 6 | Helen, she was in The Queen, Excalibur and Red |
| 40% | SYNDROME | 8 | It's the S in AIDS, IBS and PMS |