| 100% | KLAUS | 5 | & 1A Physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| 93% | FUCHS | 5 | Klaus —, physicist convicted in 1950 of passing information to the Soviet Union about the development of the atomic bomb in the US |
| 26% | AMORE | 5 | "We the people of the United States, in order to form ___ perfect union ...": 2 wds. |
| 26% | HARRIMAN | 8 | U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during W.W. II |
| 26% | ASTROLOGY | 9 | Study of the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies in order to divine information about human affairs |
| 25% | SEVENTH | 7 | Like Maryland, in order of states admitted to the Union |
| 25% | AFLCIO | 6 | Largest federation of unions in the US |
| 24% | EVIL | 4 | The Soviet Union's type of empire, according to President Reagan |
| 24% | KIM | 3 | & 17D India-born English double agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 |
| 24% | OPPENHEIMER | 11 | Film starring Cillian Murphy as the "father of the atomic bomb" that you probably watched in theaters in 2023 |
| 24% | IMMUNE | 6 | Like Ellie, to the cordyceps infection, in "The Last of Us" |
| 24% | ASK | 3 | To request information in the form of a question |
| 23% | AAH | 3 | US Army program begun in 1972 to find a replacement after the cancellation of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne (abbr.) |
| 23% | TEACHERS | 8 | Makeup of the largest labor union in the US |
| 23% | AEC | 3 | Former U.S. government agency formed for the development of atomic science and technology: Abbr. |
| 23% | BREWER | 6 | Margaret, first woman in the US Marine Corps to reach the rank of general (1978) |
| 23% | GULAG | 5 | “The ___ Archipelago” (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn work about forced labor in the Soviet Union) |
| 23% | TWO | 3 | First digit in the year we're about to welcome: 2025 |
| 23% | SLEEP | 5 | Activity that seems to pass in the blink of an eye |
| 23% | NYC | 3 | Capital of the U.S. from 1785 to 1790, in brief |
| 23% | UTAH | 4 | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ratified by the US in March 1848, saw Mexico ceding this territory to the US |
| 23% | WELCOME | 7 | "___ to Wrexham" (FX documentary series about the purchase of a U.K. football club by American actors) |
| 23% | ALEXANDERHAIG | 13 | Secretary of State who suggested a "nuclear warning shot" in Europe would deter the Soviet Union |
| 23% | FTLB | 4 | This force, used in the US, is the equivalent of about 13.5 million ergs (abbr.) |
| 23% | THERESAMAY | 10 | Head of the only government in U.K. history to be found in contempt of Parliament |
| 22% | LOSALAMOS | 9 | Town in New Mexico, US, where the first atomic bomb was developed |
| 22% | FIVE | 4 | Last digit in the New Year we're about to welcome: 2025 |
| 22% | AMBROSE | 7 | ___ Bierce, author of "The Devil's Dictionary" who served in the U.S. Union Army |
| 22% | UFOS | 4 | In 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense established a group to examine them (abbr.) |
| 22% | SUNBELT | 7 | Home to eight of the 10 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. |