| 100% | ICARUS | 6 | Flew too close to the sun and fell in a Greek myth |
| 62% | ICARUS | 6 | Figure in Greek myth who flew too close to the sun |
| 61% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun, in myth |
| 60% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun in Greek mythology |
| 58% | ICARUS | 6 | In myth he flew too close to the sun |
| 57% | ICARUS | 6 | In myth, one who flew too close to the sun |
| 55% | ICARUS | 6 | Figure from Greek myths who flew too close to the sun |
| 49% | OVERREACHES | 11 | Flies too close to the sun |
| 48% | ICARUS | 6 | He flew too close to the sun |
| 47% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical character who flew too close to the sun |
| 47% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical figure who flew too close to the sun |
| 47% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythological son who flew too close to the Sun |
| 47% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythological figure who flew too close to the sun |
| 47% | ICARUS | 6 | Boy with wax wings that flew too close to the sun |
| 45% | ICARUS | 6 | The man who flew too close to the sun |
| 44% | EDGE | 4 | Get too close to the ___ (be in danger of falling) |
| 37% | MELT | 4 | Do as the 1-Across did when Icarus flew too close to the sun |
| 36% | ICARUS | 6 | Mythical figure who inspired the idiom "fly too close to the sun" |
| 36% | TAILGATE | 8 | To drive too close to the car in front |
| 35% | PERIHELION | 10 | *Point in a planet's orbit that's closest to the sun |
| 35% | ROW | 3 | Front ___ (seat location closest to the stage in a theater) |
| 35% | COMET | 5 | One might fly close to the sun |
| 35% | ACHERON | 7 | River to the underworld, in Greek myth |
| 34% | HEDGEHOP | 8 | Fly a plane close to the ground |
| 33% | VALKYRIES | 9 | Those tending to the fallen warriors called einherjar, in myth |
| 33% | HARRIETQUIMBY | 13 | First woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel (2 wds.) |
| 33% | INSIDE | 6 | Too close to the batter |
| 32% | MERCURY | 7 | Planet closest to the sun |
| 32% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| 32% | TROY | 4 | City that fell to a giant-wooden-horse-based invasion, in myth |