| 100% | ICARUS | 6 | Figure in Greek myth who flew too close to the sun |
| 88% | ICARUS | 6 | Figure from Greek myths who flew too close to the sun |
| 73% | ICARUS | 6 | Flew too close to the sun and fell in a Greek myth |
| 73% | ICARUS | 6 | In myth, one who flew too close to the sun |
| 66% | ICARUS | 6 | In myth he flew too close to the sun |
| 66% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun, in myth |
| 66% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology |
| 65% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical figure who flew too close to the sun |
| 65% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythological figure who flew too close to the sun |
| 61% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical character who flew too close to the sun |
| 61% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythological son who flew too close to the Sun |
| 59% | ICARUS | 6 | The man who flew too close to the sun |
| 54% | OVERREACHES | 11 | Flies too close to the sun |
| 53% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical figure who inspired the idiom "fly too close to the sun" |
| 52% | ICARUS | 6 | Boy with wax wings that flew too close to the sun |
| 52% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun |
| 42% | THEOPHANE | 9 | Figure in Greek mythology whose name roughly means “manifestation of God” and who gave birth to the ram with the golden fleece |
| 41% | EUROPA | 6 | Figure in Greek myth after whom a continent is named |
| 40% | MELT | 4 | Do as the 1-Across did when Icarus flew too close to the sun |
| 40% | EDGE | 4 | Get too close to the ___ (be in danger of falling) |
| 39% | TAILGATE | 8 | To drive too close to the car in front |
| 38% | COMET | 5 | One might fly close to the sun |
| 36% | BRANSON | 7 | Richard who flew to the edge of space in 2021 |
| 36% | INSIDE | 6 | Too close to the batter |
| 35% | NIOBE | 5 | Tragic figure in Greek myth |
| 35% | MINOTAUR | 8 | Fearsome figure in Greek myth |
| 35% | MERCURY | 7 | Planet closest to the sun |
| 34% | ERATO | 5 | Figure in Greek myth whose name means "desired" |
| 34% | ACHERON | 7 | River to the underworld, in Greek myth |
| 34% | MEDUSA | 6 | Snake-haired figure in Greek myth |