| 100% | DONNE | 5 | "Go, and catch a falling star" poet |
| 100% | DONNE | 5 | "Go and Catch a Falling Star" poet |
| 82% | DONNE | 5 | He wrote, "Go and Catch a Falling Star." |
| 53% | PERRYCOMO | 9 | "Catch a Falling Star" singer |
| 53% | PERRYCOMO | 9 | "Catch a Falling Star" crooner |
| 52% | COMO | 4 | "Catch a Falling Star" singer, 1958 |
| 52% | COMO | 4 | "Catch a Falling Star" singer Perry |
| 52% | CARY | 4 | "To Catch a Thief" and "Suspicion" star ___ Grant |
| 47% | ROSAMUND | 8 | Pike, actress star of Gone Girl and A Private War |
| 46% | HAS | 3 | "London ___ Fallen," a 2016 action film starring Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart |
| 44% | METEORIC | 8 | Spectacular as a falling star |
| 44% | WISH | 4 | What a falling star might prompt |
| 44% | CHAPPELLROAN | 12 | Pop star with the 2023 début album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” |
| 43% | ORRS | 4 | Rink star and a "Catch-22" pilot |
| 42% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 41% | WISH | 4 | You might make one when you see a falling star |
| 41% | FINDCLOSURE | 11 | Accept and let go of something … or a hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | TORIAMOS | 8 | Caught A Lite Sneeze and Cornflake Girl singer |
| 40% | NAB | 3 | Trap and catch, as a criminal |
| 40% | ABOVE | 5 | Go ___ and beyond (give a 110%) |
| 40% | BETWEEN | 7 | Caught ___ a rock and a hard place |
| 40% | BETWEEN | 7 | Caught __ a rock and a hard place |
| 40% | NET | 3 | What catches a tightrope walker who falls |
| 39% | HALT | 4 | "___ and Catch Fire" (former AMC series starring Lee Pace) |
| 39% | GRACEKELLY | 10 | "To Catch a Thief" star: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LEE | 3 | "Halt and Catch Fire" star Pace |
| 39% | EGOTRIP | 7 | A star might go on one |
| 39% | NAB | 3 | Catch and arrest, as a pickpocket |
| 39% | OFT | 3 | Time and again, to a poet |
| 39% | ASTER | 5 | Fall flower with a star shape |