| 100% | REPRISE | 7 | Return to a theme, as in a symphony |
| 56% | ASTARISBORN | 11 | Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle |
| 53% | ROLE | 4 | Something to fill, as in a film |
| 53% | RESEAT | 6 | Move to another location, as in a restaurant |
| 53% | LAND | 4 | Return to earth, as a plane |
| 52% | SITSOUT | 7 | Declines to participate, as in a dance: 2 wds. |
| 52% | HEAVEHO | 7 | Command to pull, as in a tug-of-war |
| 52% | CITED | 5 | Gave credit to, as in a footnote |
| 51% | BEAMUP | 6 | Transport to a ship, as in ''Star Trek'' |
| 50% | ACT | 3 | Pretend to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 50% | ACTS | 4 | Pretends to be someone else, as in a movie |
| 50% | SCHILLER | 8 | Ode to Joy poet; Beethoven used it in a symphony |
| 50% | AIM | 3 | Prepare to take a shot, as in basketball |
| 49% | FLYLOW | 6 | Move so as to evade detection, in a way |
| 48% | WATER | 5 | Tend to, in a way, as a garden |
| 48% | AGED | 4 | Sat in a cellar to improve, as wine |
| 48% | PELE | 4 | Name added to a Brazilian dictionary in 2023 as an adjective meaning "incomparable" |
| 48% | STARRED | 7 | To have appeared as the lead in a movie or play |
| 48% | BLOT | 4 | Try to contain, in a way, as a spill |
| 48% | PLS | 3 | "Be so kind as to," in a text message |
| 48% | PENGUINS | 8 | Animals referred to as a raft when in water |
| 48% | SERVE | 5 | Bring to the table, as food in a restaurant |
| 47% | SAGS | 4 | Gives in to gravity, as a roof |
| 47% | GOLF | 4 | Sport that returned to the Summer Olympics in 2016 after a 112-year absence |
| 47% | ADOPT | 5 | To legally take in a child or pet as one's own |
| 47% | TERRAFORM | 9 | Change a planet to resemble earth, as in many sci-fi novels |
| 47% | AVENGE | 6 | Get payback in return for a wrong done to another |
| 47% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to a ship or the pier, as in docking |
| 47% | FLORA | 5 | All the plants in a region, as opposed to "fauna" |
| 47% | INTEND | 6 | To have something in mind as a goal |