| 100% | ENTRY | 5 | Contest submission (with the following space) |
| 59% | FILLSINTHE | 10 | Adds an answer (with the following space) |
| 47% | SEATTLE | 7 | Washington city with the Space Needle |
| 46% | DOCK | 4 | Connect with the space station, e.g. |
| 46% | ABIDE | 5 | Follow the rules with by |
| 46% | ODOREATER | 9 | Product associated with the annual Rotten Sneakers Contest |
| 45% | NASA | 4 | Org. with the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
| 45% | BIATHLON | 8 | The contest with skiing and shooting |
| 45% | PHI | 3 | Letter that rhymes with the two that follow it |
| 44% | STARFLEET | 9 | Space force that follows the Prime Directive |
| 44% | DAILYPLANET | 11 | Newspaper with the headline "Mystery Hero Saves Falling Space Plane" |
| 44% | SWING | 5 | With 63-Down, period following the Jazz Age |
| 43% | TBS | 3 | Cable channel with the animated shows "Final Space" and "American Dad!" |
| 43% | ATTIC | 5 | Space under the roof with a stash of memorabilia? |
| 43% | MISSGRIT | 8 | Artist with debut album Follow the Cyborg |
| 42% | INDEPENDENCEAVE | 15 | D.C. thoroughfare with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum |
| 42% | WALLE | 5 | Film with the tagline "In space, no one can hear you clean" |
| 42% | ELITE | 5 | With 3-Down, March Madness round following the Sweet Sixteen |
| 42% | OMNI | 4 | Prefix with present (and not the contest answer) |
| 42% | SUNFLOWER | 9 | Bloom with seeds that follow the Fibonacci sequence |
| 41% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 film with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" |
| 41% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 film with the tagline "In space, no one can hear you scream" |
| 41% | ALIEN | 5 | Movie with the tag line "In space no one can hear you scream" |
| 41% | ALIEN | 5 | 1979 movie with the tagline "In space no one can hear you scream" |
| 41% | JAIL | 4 | Monopoly space with the words "Just Visiting" |
| 40% | ITALIAN | 7 | With 49-Down, its form follows the pattern of the circled letters |
| 40% | DARK | 4 | With 12 Across, period that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
| 39% | BEE | 3 | Contest in which the rules must be followed to the letter? |
| 39% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "space" to collectively mean the atmosphere and outer space |
| 39% | PHYSICS | 7 | Branch of science concerned with the study of the properties of space, time, matter and energy |