| 100% | UMBRIEL | 7 | Satellite of Uranus discovered along with Ariel in 1851 by William Lassell |
| 36% | UMBRIEL | 7 | Large moon of Uranus discovered in 1851 |
| 35% | CALLISTO | 8 | Satellite of Jupiter discovered by Galileo in 1610 |
| 32% | RHEA | 4 | Third satellite of Saturn to be discovered, this one by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1672 |
| 31% | PHOEBE | 6 | Moon of Saturn discovered by William Henry Pickering in 1899 |
| 28% | ASYOULIKEIT | 11 | Pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare mostly set in the Forest of Arden with characters like Rosalind and Celia as main heroines: 4 wds. |
| 27% | RICE | 4 | Along with lentils, one of the two main ingredients in idli |
| 27% | HERSCHEL | 8 | William —, astronomer who discovered Uranus in 1781 |
| 27% | HERSCHEL | 8 | William, astronomer who discovered Uranus in 1781 |
| 27% | THEBE | 5 | Inner satellite of Jupiter discovered in 1979 |
| 27% | SLOTH | 5 | Along with the anteater, one of two animals in the order Pilosa |
| 27% | HERSCHEL | 8 | William —, discoverer in 1781 of the planet Uranus |
| 26% | HERSCHEL | 8 | William —, astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 |
| 26% | HENGIST | 7 | Leader, along with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain |
| 25% | PULSAR | 6 | Type of cosmic object discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in 1967 |
| 25% | ARYA | 4 | Youngest Stark daughter played by Maisie Williams in "Game of Thrones" |
| 25% | SIDE | 4 | Lobster with a ___ of lobster, dish ordered by Rachel in "Friends" |
| 24% | ROBERT | 6 | With 32-Across, "Dirty Grandpa" actor who plays William Hale in "Killers of the Flower Moon" |
| 24% | LINCOLN | 7 | With 124-Across, dedicated in October 1913, project represented by the 13 pairs of circled letters |
| 24% | CROSS | 5 | With 36-Down, intersection ... as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? |
| 23% | MAGOG | 5 | Giant in folklore who, with Gog, survived the destruction of their race by Brutus |
| 23% | DECLARATION | 11 | With 114-Across, source of the phrase formed by the ends of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 23% | CHIRON | 6 | 2060 —, minor planet discovered in 1977 whose orbit lies between those of Saturn and Uranus |
| 23% | TURDUCKEN | 9 | Entree with nested birds, as suggested by the progression of fowl in the starred answers |
| 23% | FEARS | 5 | "___ in Solitude," conversational poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge with notes of patriotism for the British people |
| 23% | ACRE | 4 | Traditionally, amount of land plowable by one man in one day with a team of oxen |
| 23% | ECLIPSE | 7 | "Total ___ of the Heart," hit song by Bonnie Tyler with a celestial phenomenon in its title |
| 23% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 22% | KORE | 4 | Moon also known as Jupiter XLIX discovered by a team from the University of Hawaii in 2003 |
| 22% | SANGRIA | 7 | "___ Wine," 2018 song by Pharrell Williams and Camila Cabello with a "wine-based drink" in its title |