| 100% | SEP | 3 | Mo. in 1962 in which J.F.K. gave his "We choose to go to the moon" speech |
| 47% | JFK | 3 | "We choose to go to the moon" speech giver, informally |
| 40% | JFK | 3 | "We choose to go to the moon" speaker, for short |
| 34% | APOLLOSPACEPROGRAM | 18 | Men went to the moon in it |
| 32% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
| 31% | HANDCARTS | 9 | The saying says we're going to hell in these |
| 30% | BIEBER | 6 | Singer who gave his name to a "fever" in the 2010s |
| 30% | SERMONS | 7 | Speeches given in churches to guide the faithful |
| 30% | EBONY | 5 | Magazine to which Obama gave his first postelection interview in 2008 |
| 30% | ARTCLASS | 8 | Course in which students often go back to the drawing board? |
| 29% | SATELLITEWISH | 13 | Irrational urge to go to the moon? |
| 29% | WCS | 3 | Spots to go in the U.K. |
| 29% | EROS | 4 | Magazine for which publisher Ralph Ginzburg went to jail in the '70s |
| 29% | JOHNDOE | 7 | In the US, name given to an unidentified male body |
| 29% | ASKMOM | 6 | Reply in which one parent says to go talk to the other parent |
| 29% | ALBANIA | 7 | Country with which the U.S. goes to war in "Wag the Dog" |
| 28% | HELL | 4 | "I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to ___ in his own way": Robert Frost |
| 28% | BURNT | 5 | The 2015 film in which Bradley Cooper is on a mission to earn his former culinary glory |
| 28% | JAPANESE | 8 | Language that gave us the words heard phonetically in the answers to the starred clues |
| 28% | ROADS | 5 | "Where we're going, we don't need ___" (last line in "Back to the Future") |
| 28% | ILLINOIS | 8 | Springfield's state which became the first state to decriminalize same-sex relations in 1962 |
| 28% | JIMIHENDRIX | 11 | "Purple Haze" singer who served in the US Army from 1961 to 1962: 2 wds. |
| 28% | KICK | 4 | ___ the Can, kids' game in which you go to "jail" if you're late to the can, often played in 17a |
| 28% | LILY | 4 | Corpse ___, name given to the Rafflesia, which is one of the largest flowers in the world |
| 28% | JOHNSON | 7 | Dwayne ___, WWE champion who gave his voice to the fictional character Maui in the movie "Moana" |
| 28% | LEBRON | 6 | ___ James, NBA player who gave his voice to the fictional character Gwangi in the film "Smallfoot" |
| 28% | JAMESSTEWART | 12 | Actor with the same initials as Jefferson Smith, his role in "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" |
| 28% | SUWANNEE | 8 | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border which flows to the Gulf of Mexico |
| 28% | LOS | 3 | ___ Angeles, city in which Elton John performed at the Troubadour for his first concert in the US |
| 28% | RASSLE | 6 | Go to the mat, in dialect |