| 100% | BLASTOFF | 8 | Launch into space, e.g. a rocket |
| 64% | LIFTOFF | 7 | When a rocket launches into space |
| 53% | ASTRONAUT | 9 | Someone who goes into space in a rocket |
| 46% | ROCKETS | 7 | Vehicles launched into space |
| 45% | SPUTNIK | 7 | First satellite launched into space |
| 45% | HUBBLE | 6 | Nineties telescope launched into space |
| 45% | GORDO | 5 | Monkey launched into space in 1958 |
| 45% | HAM | 3 | First hominid launched into space ('61) |
| 44% | RANTS | 5 | Launches into a tirade |
| 44% | SPUTNIK | 7 | First satellite that Russia launched into space |
| 44% | GAP | 3 | Space in a crevice, e.g. |
| 43% | ELON | 4 | ___ Musk's Tesla Roadster, car launched into space |
| 43% | IRONY | 5 | A smoke alarm bursting into flames, e.g. |
| 43% | SITUPANDBEGIN | 13 | Launch into a core-strengthening routine? |
| 42% | ABORT | 5 | Cancel, as a rocket launch |
| 42% | SCRUBBED | 8 | Canceled, as a rocket launch |
| 42% | DEAFENING | 9 | Loud like a rocket launch |
| 42% | NOGO | 4 | Scrubbed, as a rocket launch |
| 42% | ABORT | 5 | Call off a rocket launch |
| 42% | TEASEUP | 7 | Comb into a beehive, e.g. |
| 42% | ADAPT | 5 | Make into a musical, e.g. |
| 42% | TIEBACK | 7 | Put into a ponytail, e.g. |
| 42% | ADAPTING | 8 | Turning into a musical, e.g. |
| 42% | ADAPT | 5 | Turn into a film, e.g. |
| 42% | DISREPUTE | 9 | Bringing the game into __; e.g. a football scandal |
| 42% | ABORT | 5 | Call off, as a rocket launch |
| 42% | TEN | 3 | Start of a rocket launch countdown |
| 42% | NOGO | 4 | Canceled, as a rocket launch (Hyph.) |
| 41% | FROMAFAR | 8 | How a rocket launch is usually viewed |
| 41% | PAD | 3 | What a rocket rests on before launch |