| 100% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic sci-fi anthology whose first story is titled "Robbie" |
| 54% | FRANKENSTEIN | 12 | Classic sci-fi novel whose title character is a mad scientist |
| 48% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic sci-fi collection whose title should not be construed as any sort of statement from me, the human author of this puzzle |
| 47% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic sci-fi story anthology of 1950 |
| 44% | UHURA | 5 | Sci-fi lieutenant whose first name is Nyota |
| 42% | DRWHO | 5 | BBC classic whose title role will be played by a woman for the first time in 2017 |
| 39% | DANIELX | 7 | Sci-fi series, cowritten by 16-Across, whose title hero is an alien teenage boy: 2 wds. |
| 39% | RUR | 3 | Classic play whose title is an abbreviation |
| 38% | THETWILIGHTZONE | 15 | TV series whose first episode was titled "Where Is Everybody?" |
| 38% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose first album was titled, appropriately, "High Voltage" |
| 38% | LOS2RLD | 7 | Classic sci-fi story, with "The" |
| 37% | IASIMOV | 7 | 1994 literary autobiography whose first chapter is titled "Infant Prodigy?" |
| 37% | THEM | 4 | Classic sci-fi film with a pronoun title |
| 37% | ESME | 4 | Saki story whose title character is a hyena |
| 37% | DRNO | 4 | Title film villain whose first name is Julius |
| 36% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco whose first name can be found backward in her song title "Binary" |
| 36% | ACHRISTMASCAROL | 15 | Classic Dickens title (from whose 10 letters this puzzle was constructed) |
| 36% | DRNO | 4 | 1958 title supervillain whose first name is Julius |
| 35% | ILOVELUCY | 9 | Classic sitcom whose title was written in cursive over a heart (3 wds.) |
| 35% | SNAKESONAPLANE | 14 | Cult classic whose title is depicted four times in this puzzle |
| 35% | OKLAHOMA | 8 | State whose name is the title of a classic Broadway musical |
| 35% | ANI | 3 | Sci-fi character whose mother is Shmi |
| 35% | REBECCA | 7 | Alfred Hitchcock film whose title character is dead before the story begins |
| 34% | DARCY | 5 | Character whose first name, Fitzwilliam, is used only twice in the classic novel in which he appears |
| 34% | CITIZENKANE | 11 | Classic 1941 film whose title character is partly based on William Randolph Hearst: 2 wds. |
| 34% | ALOUETTE | 8 | Song whose title is repeated before and after "gentille" in its first line |
| 34% | THEMARTIAN | 10 | Sci-fi hit whose tagline is "Bring him home" |
| 34% | TOR | 3 | Sci-fi publisher whose logo is a rocky peak |
| 34% | JACKIE | 6 | 2016 film starring Natalie Portman as the title First Lady whose husband is assassinated |
| 33% | TOR | 3 | Sci-fi/fantasy publisher whose logo is a mountain peak |