| 100% | YMIR | 4 | Name of Saturn XIX, which takes 3.6 Earth years to orbit the planet |
| 32% | ROARING | 7 | Name given to the prosperous years of the 1920s |
| 31% | SCUD | 4 | Name of a missile used in the gulf war, which means to move quickly like clouds |
| 30% | SPE | 3 | Name of the extrasolar planet that circles around the giant star 14 Andromedae, some 249 light years away |
| 30% | GLENN | 5 | John, first American to orbit the planet |
| 30% | MARY | 4 | Most popular girl's name of the past 100 years, according to the Social Security Administration |
| 30% | JAMES | 5 | Most popular boy's name of the past 100 years, according to the Social Security Administration |
| 30% | JUNO | 4 | Spanish boy's name related to the sixth month of the year |
| 29% | YEAR | 4 | Length of time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun |
| 29% | ANDRETTI | 8 | Only person to be named Driver of the Year in three different decades |
| 29% | GAGARIN | 7 | First person to orbit the Earth |
| 29% | JOHNGLENN | 9 | First American to orbit the Earth |
| 29% | GLENN | 5 | First American to orbit the Earth |
| 29% | GGLLEENNNN | 10 | First American to orbit the earth |
| 29% | DURHAMBULLS | 11 | Baseball team from which a Kevin Costner movie took its name (4 of the question) |
| 29% | LYN | 3 | ___ St. James, first woman to be named the Indy 500 Rookie of the Year, 1992 |
| 29% | TAYLORSWIFT | 11 | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| 28% | ENOS | 4 | Only ape to orbit the earth (1961) |
| 28% | LILY | 4 | Corpse ___, name given to the Rafflesia, which is one of the largest flowers in the world |
| 28% | EIGHTYEIGHT | 11 | Number of days it takes Mercury to orbit the sun |
| 28% | ENOS | 4 | First chimpanzee to orbit the Earth in 1961 |
| 28% | GLENN | 5 | John —, first American astronaut to orbit the earth |
| 28% | REHAB | 5 | Amy Winehouse's song from "Back to Black" which won a Grammy for Song of the Year |
| 28% | JOHNGLENN | 9 | First American to orbit the earth (1962): 2 wds. |
| 28% | CALMDOWN | 8 | "You Need to ___," 2019 song by Taylor Swift which won the MTV Video of the Year: 2 wds. |
| 28% | COUNTRY | 7 | ___ Music Association Awards, ceremony at which Taylor Swift became the youngest person to win Entertainer of the Year |
| 28% | GNR | 3 | Group still scheduled to play at the Estereo Picnic, Bogota, Colombia on December 6 of this year (abbr.) |
| 27% | ABACA | 5 | Alternate name for Manila hemp, which of course, is vulnerable to the bunchy top virus |
| 27% | ROLLWITHIT | 10 | 1988 #1 hit for 30-Across, which was nominated for the Grammy for Record of the Year: 3 wds. |
| 27% | THESECRETRACE | 13 | Biography by Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle that takes the readers to the professional world of cycling: 3 wds. |