| 100% | BHASKARA | 8 | Estimated a time for earth to orbit the sun, __ II |
| 51% | YEAR | 4 | Time it takes for Earth to circle the sun |
| 43% | WASH/DAY | 8 | Time for a trip to the laundromat |
| 41% | ELLIPSE | 7 | Earth's orbit around the sun, for example |
| 41% | MIDACT | 6 | Suboptimal time for a theatregoer to use the rest room |
| 39% | YEAR | 4 | Length of time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun |
| 39% | TAN | 3 | Color of skin that has been in the sun for a long time |
| 39% | STAMINA | 7 | The ability to keep on going for a very long time |
| 38% | MIDDLEAGE | 9 | Crisis time, for some ... or a hint to each of the circled words |
| 38% | YEAR | 4 | Time period for one revolution around the Sun by Earth |
| 37% | ERIS | 4 | Ninth-largest body known to orbit the sun |
| 37% | NEWLYWEEDS | 10 | Tends to a garden for the first time? |
| 37% | EIGHTYEIGHT | 11 | Number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun |
| 36% | GAGARIN | 7 | First person to orbit the Earth |
| 36% | JOHNGLENN | 9 | First American to orbit the Earth |
| 36% | GLENN | 5 | First American to orbit the Earth |
| 36% | GGLLEENNNN | 10 | First American to orbit the earth |
| 36% | ENOS | 4 | Only ape to orbit the earth (1961) |
| 36% | ORB | 3 | The sun, to a sonneteer |
| 36% | SPINS | 5 | "For a long time, it was believed that the sun ___ around the earth." |
| 35% | ENOS | 4 | First chimpanzee to orbit the Earth in 1961 |
| 35% | GLENN | 5 | John —, first American astronaut to orbit the earth |
| 35% | JOHNGLENN | 9 | First American to orbit the earth (1962): 2 wds. |
| 35% | RESTS | 5 | Times for the brass to breathe, perhaps |
| 34% | ASTEROID | 8 | Rock that orbits the sun but isn't a planet |
| 34% | DRUMSOLO | 8 | Time for a percussionist to shine (2 wds.) |
| 34% | FATTUESDAY | 10 | Time for a bacchanal in the Big Easy |
| 34% | ACTV | 4 | Time for the closing monologue of a Shakespeare play |
| 34% | TANS | 4 | Lies in the sun for a while |
| 34% | SPACESTATION | 12 | "International ___," the largest human-made body in low Earth orbit to be continuously occupied for more than 17 years: 2 wds. |