| 100% | ISS | 3 | Inhabited satellite whose assembly in orbit began in 1998, briefly |
| 31% | KURTANGLE | 9 | American retired professional wrestler whose ring name is "The Conquistador" who began his wrestling career in 1998: 2 wds. |
| 30% | HOPI | 4 | Language whose first dictionary was published in 1998 |
| 29% | ORA | 3 | Rita ___ (singer whose Phoenix World Tour began in 2019) |
| 28% | ERIECANAL | 9 | Waterway whose construction began in Rome |
| 28% | SNL | 3 | NBC show whose forty-seventh season began in 2021 |
| 28% | CASSINI | 7 | Spacecraft that began orbiting Saturn in 2004 |
| 28% | SPACEJUNK | 9 | Failed satellites and other debris left in orbit |
| 27% | MIR | 3 | Largest artificial satellite in orbit, before 9-Down |
| 27% | ELLE | 4 | Supermodel Macpherson whose career began in the 1980s |
| 27% | JACKSON | 7 | Singer Janet whose Vegas residency begins in May |
| 27% | GROUT | 5 | Car maker up to 1912, whose assembly plant still stands in Orange, Massachusetts |
| 27% | CERES | 5 | NASA's spacecraft Dawn began orbiting it in 2015 |
| 26% | NSA | 3 | Org. whose initials are aptly hidden in "foreign satellite interception" |
| 26% | UTAH | 4 | State whose flag will feature a beehive beginning in 2024 |
| 26% | ARROW | 5 | Superhero series on the CW whose final season began in October |
| 26% | PISA | 4 | Italian city with a famous tower whose construction began in 1173 |
| 25% | NEOS | 4 | Small celestial bodies whose orbits are in proximity to ours, for short |
| 25% | SCHWARTZ | 8 | Delmore —, US writer whose works include 1938 volume In Dreams Begin Responsibilities |
| 25% | SOVIETUNION | 11 | It once had many satellites in its orbit |
| 25% | PAULSIMON | 9 | "Graceland" singer whose "Homeward Bound—The Farewell Tour" began in May: 2 wds. |
| 25% | ISR | 3 | Nation that signed the Wye River Memorandum in Maryland on Oct. 1998, briefly |
| 24% | HEARST | 6 | Patricia —, actress whose roles have included Lynn Wentworth in 1998 comedy-drama film Pecker |
| 24% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | British singer born March 25, 1947, whose farewell tour begins in 2018 (2 wds.) |
| 24% | EGG | 3 | ___ Project, begun at Princeton in 1998: an ongoing experiment to try to detect "global consciousness" |
| 24% | OZZYOSBOURNE | 12 | Former Black Sabbath lead singer whose "No More Tours 2" began in April: 2 wds. |
| 24% | MDA | 3 | Org. whose telethon was the first to be viewed globally via the internet in 1998 |
| 24% | KARATE | 6 | Sport whose belt levels, from beginning to advanced, appear in the starred answers |
| 23% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | "Candle in the Wind" singer whose "Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour" begins in September: 2 wds. |
| 23% | ISS | 3 | Merger of the Russian Mir 2 and NASA freedom platforms, now the largest artificial satellite in orbit |