| 100% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | The study of stars and planets |
| 86% | OSIRIS | 6 | Ancient Egyptian god; ruler of the underworld and judge of the dead |
| 85% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | Science of the stars and planets |
| 84% | AGORA | 5 | 2009 historical biopic based on the life of ancient Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Hypatia |
| 83% | ASTRO | 5 | Study of the stars and planets, for short |
| 83% | NUT | 3 | Ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky and the cosmos who swallowed the sun each night |
| 77% | DANE | 4 | "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" star DeHaan |
| 74% | ASTROLOGY | 9 | Divination of stars' and planets' effect on humans |
| 74% | ANTICRIME | 9 | Describing the efforts of Batman and Spider-Man |
| 73% | GALAXY | 6 | Groups of stars and matter found in the universe |
| 73% | ALGOL | 5 | Triple star system whose variability was apparently noted in the ancient Cairo Calendar of about 3200 years ago |
| 73% | AMUNET | 6 | Ancient Egyptian goddess and consort of Amun |
| 73% | PHARAOH | 7 | Ancient Egyptian monarch; ruler of the dynasties |
| 72% | MILLION | 7 | & 10D 2004 film drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood; 2005 Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar winner |
| 72% | NOCOUNTRYFOR | 12 | & 12A 2007 drama starring Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem; 2008 Best Motion Picture of the Year Oscar winner |
| 72% | RINGO | 5 | Rock star whose name is spelled out by the middle letters of 16-, 18-, 39-, 61- and 64-Across |
| 71% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | Study of stars, space and the universe |
| 71% | TIDAL | 5 | Streaming service whose name is also an adjective describing the motion of the ocean |
| 71% | PAPYRUS | 7 | Tall aquatic Mediterranean plant from whose pithy stem a kind of paper was made by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans |
| 70% | ORBITS | 6 | The paths of planets around stars |
| 69% | ASTROLOGY | 9 | The study of star movements, and how they affect human affairs |
| 69% | ORBS | 4 | "... harmony in the motion and magnitude of the __ ... ": Copernicus |
| 69% | PTOLEMY | 7 | Ancient Greek astronomer who wrote the Almagest |
| 69% | WHANNELL | 8 | Leigh, star and co-creator of the Saw franchise |
| 69% | ETRUSCAN | 8 | Ancient language and peoples of the Mediterranean |
| 69% | ANNAFARIS | 9 | Star of The House Bunny and Mom |
| 68% | HOT | 3 | Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 68% | SYNODIC | 7 | Relating to the conjunction of stars or planets |
| 68% | AESOP | 5 | Ancient writer of "The Tortoise and the Hare" |