| 100% | DELOREAN | 8 | Model of a vehicle powered by the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor, in science fiction |
| 32% | SLED | 4 | Vehicle powered by a bunch of huskies |
| 30% | GADGETMOBILE | 12 | The vehicle used by the tool-welding Inspector in the titular animated series, modeled after a Toyota Supra Mark 2 |
| 30% | CRYOSLEEP | 9 | In science fiction, suspended animation of a body at a very low temperature |
| 29% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 28% | HUGO | 4 | Science fiction award won by N.K. Jemisin three years in a row |
| 28% | NEBULA | 6 | Annual award presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America |
| 27% | ADRAMACRITICIS | 14 | Part 1 of a quip by the writer named in the circled letters |
| 27% | TICKLEMEELMO | 12 | By the end of 1996, one million of this toy was sold in a shopping frenzy |
| 27% | DEBT | 4 | Student ___ (subject of a forgiveness plan announced by the Biden Administration in August, 2022) |
| 27% | ALBEDO | 6 | In physics, the fraction of the incoming light reflected by a planet |
| 27% | OMEN | 4 | The appearance of a butterfly in a home, for some |
| 27% | TRANSFORMERS | 12 | Science fiction movie directed by Michael Bay about a race of robots named "Autobots" starring Megan Fox |
| 27% | MONTECASSINO | 12 | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
| 27% | BEARUP | 6 | Laugh in the face of being strangled by a gorilla, maybe |
| 27% | IGLOO | 5 | Home in the shape of a dome |
| 26% | FUSION | 6 | Mr. ___, gadget from "Back to the Future" that is a source of sustainable energy |
| 26% | SHERA | 5 | Leader of the "Princesses of Power" in a 2018-20 Netflix series |
| 26% | EVE | 3 | Woman who was tempted by a serpent in the Book of Genesis |
| 26% | PELLAGRA | 8 | Deficiency disease caused by a lack of nicotinic acid in the diet |
| 26% | BIONIC | 6 | In science fiction, being electronically powered |
| 26% | AZTEC | 5 | Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Cortes in the 16th century |
| 26% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | A legendary Greek featured in Homer's epic poem, who was the King of Ithaca |
| 26% | FAERIES | 7 | Creatures of which Gloriana is the “Queene,” in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| 26% | READYPLAYERONE | 14 | Science fiction novel by Ernest Cline that released in 2011 and became a NYT Bestseller again in 2018: 3 wds. |
| 26% | OPERATIC | 8 | In the style of a work by Bizet, such as Carmen |
| 26% | AVATAR | 6 | James Cameron's science fiction film set in Pandora which is the highest-grossing movie of all time |
| 26% | IWAS | 4 | "___ born by the river / In a little tent" (start of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come") |
| 26% | AZTEC | 5 | Member of a Mexican Indian people whose great empire was overthrown by Hernan Cortes in the 16th-century |