| 100% | ORE | 3 | Cinnabar, to mercury |
| 59% | AZOTH | 5 | Mercury, to medieval alchemists |
| 59% | AZOTH | 5 | Mercury, to an alchemist |
| 58% | ODE | 3 | Horace's "Hymn to Mercury," for one |
| 58% | GORDO | 5 | Mercury astronaut Cooper, to friends |
| 55% | SUN | 3 | Mercury is the closest planet to it |
| 54% | MARINER | 7 | First probe to visit Mercury |
| 53% | MESSENGER | 9 | NASA mission sent to photograph Mercury |
| 53% | PLANETARY | 9 | Related to Mars, Venus, Mercury, etc. |
| 52% | MARINER | 7 | Early NASA program that sent probes to Mercury, Venus, and Mars |
| 51% | NEAREST | 7 | Like Mercury, in proximity to the sun |
| 50% | BICYCLE | 7 | Freddie Mercury sang of wanting to ride his |
| 47% | ORR | 3 | Barometric pressure unit equal to 1mm of mercury is t___ |
| 47% | EIGHTYEIGHT | 11 | Number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun |
| 45% | PALM | 4 | Where to find the Mercury line and the Girdle of Venus |
| 45% | TRANSITED | 9 | Traveled across, as Mercury did to the sun on November 11 |
| 45% | SCHIRRA | 7 | Only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs |
| 44% | ROW | 3 | You may have to do this if your Mercury Pro XS quits |
| 44% | LOVE | 4 | "Somebody to ___," hit song by Queen that was written by Freddie Mercury |
| 43% | MAMA | 4 | To whom Freddie Mercury sings "Didn't mean to make you cry …," in "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| 42% | REAL | 4 | "Life is ___," 1982 song by Freddie Mercury which is a tribute to Lennon |
| 41% | PEN | 3 | ___ and paper, items Freddie Mercury's assistants were asked to carry at all times |
| 39% | MANINOUTERSPACE | 15 | Project Mercury objective (and a hint to 1-, 18-, 27-, 47-, 62- and 68-Across) |
| 39% | SOIR | 4 | Best time of day to see the Mercury from Brest at the end of September |
| 38% | EZRACOLLECTIVE | 14 | "Where I'm Meant To Be" jazz quintet who won the 2023 Mercury Prize (2 wds.) |
| 37% | DEITY | 5 | Saturn or Mercury |
| 37% | CAR | 3 | Saturn or Mercury |
| 37% | GOD | 3 | Mars or Mercury |
| 37% | ORB | 3 | Saturn or Mercury |
| 37% | PLANET | 6 | Mars or Mercury |