| 100% | ARP | 3 | "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies", published in 1966 by Caltech, was the creation of astronomer Halton ___ |
| 39% | COPERNICUS | 10 | Polish astronomer whose theory of the solar system was published in 1543 |
| 37% | COSMIC | 6 | "The ___ Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective," book by the astronomer Carl Sagan which was originally published in 1973 |
| 37% | POLE | 4 | "The Captain of the ___-Star," short story by Arthur Conan Doyle that was published in the Temple Bar |
| 34% | GOODVIBRATIONS | 14 | Number-one hit released by The Beach Boys in 1966 which was featured in the climax scene of "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | The first part of his ''Ulysses'' was published in 1918 |
| 33% | CARL | 4 | Astronomer Sagan whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress |
| 33% | RSV | 3 | The English translation of the Bible which was published in 1952, for short |
| 33% | MOLTENLAVA | 10 | The destruction of Green Lake in early June 2018 was accomplished by this |
| 33% | AGEE | 4 | Outfielder Tommie who was AL Rookie of the Year in 1966 |
| 33% | BEARUP | 6 | Laugh in the face of being strangled by a gorilla, maybe |
| 32% | AZURE | 5 | “I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false ___ in the windowpane”: “Pale Fire” |
| 32% | TOOMUCHHEAVEN | 13 | Song that was the first of three #1 singles by 42-Across in 1979 (3 wds.) |
| 32% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 32% | ADIE | 4 | Kate —, journalist whose autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers was published in 2002 |
| 32% | EVE | 3 | Woman who was tempted by a serpent in the Book of Genesis |
| 32% | LAWLORDS | 8 | Name by which the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were also known |
| 32% | SILMARILLION | 12 | The —, collection of works by J R R Tolkien published posthumously in 1977 |
| 32% | NARNIA | 6 | Setting of seven fantasy novels by C S Lewis published in the 1950s |
| 32% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 32% | RACOON | 6 | Rocket is this animal in Guardians of the Galaxy |
| 32% | OSC | 3 | Henry Kerner was confirmed by the US Senate in 2017 to be the executive of this agency (abbr.) |
| 32% | TICKLEMEELMO | 12 | By the end of 1996, one million of this toy was sold in a shopping frenzy |
| 31% | ERASMUS | 7 | Desiderius —, Dutch humanist whose Greek edition of the New Testament was published in 1516 |
| 31% | NEO | 3 | Anagram of "one" which is the character played by Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix" |
| 31% | INFECTION | 9 | Invaders were killed by this in War of the Worlds |
| 31% | DYNASTS | 7 | The —, epic drama of the Napoleonic War by Thomas Hardy published in three parts between 1904-08 |
| 31% | PLAGUE | 6 | "The ___," novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 which was inspired by the 1849 cholera epidemic |
| 31% | SALK | 4 | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| 31% | EDEN | 4 | Garden of —, Old Testament location in which Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation |