| 100% | STEAMPUNK | 9 | Sci-fi genre devoted to the Industrial Revolution |
| 42% | BACK | 4 | "___ to the Future," sci-fi film franchise |
| 42% | CULTIVATED | 10 | Devoted to the arts |
| 41% | ATRIP | 5 | "___ to the Moon" (seminal 1902 sci-fi film) |
| 41% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," popular sci-fi movie |
| 41% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___" (1985 sci-fi movie) |
| 41% | FANTASY | 7 | Genre akin to sci-fi |
| 41% | SWEENEYTODD | 11 | 1979 Broadway hit set during the Industrial Revolution |
| 40% | WATT | 4 | Giant of the Industrial Revolution |
| 39% | SLATER | 6 | Samuel __, father of the Industrial Revolution |
| 39% | LABORDAY | 8 | US holiday devoted to the workers |
| 37% | DYNAMITE | 8 | Alfred Nobel's "explosive" invention during the industrial revolution |
| 37% | RAP | 3 | Genre introduced to the Grammys in 1989 |
| 37% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd |
| 36% | BOTANICAL | 9 | ___ garden (area devoted to the study and exhibition of plants) |
| 36% | STEAMAGE | 8 | Industrial revolution that began in the late 1700s |
| 36% | SCI | 3 | ___-fi (genre for "Back to the Future") |
| 36% | ANNE | 4 | Sci-fi writer McCaffrey, who was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction |
| 36% | FUTURE | 6 | "Back to the ___," 1985 sci-fi film starring Michael J. Fox with an oxymoronic title |
| 36% | THISISLANDEARTH | 15 | 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor |
| 35% | JURASSIC | 8 | "___ Park," "Weird Al" Yankovic song that's a tribute to the eponymous dinosaur sci-fi franchise |
| 34% | CYBERPUNK | 9 | Sci-fi genre |
| 34% | PHOTO | 5 | Industrial revolution invention that's the output of a camera, for short |
| 34% | CUBA | 4 | Nation that's home to the Palace of the Revolution |
| 34% | TIMETRAVELING | 13 | Sci-fi trope, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 34% | ERAS | 4 | The Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution, for example |
| 33% | RAP | 3 | Music genre added to the Grammys in 1989 |
| 33% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 33% | TELEGRAPH | 9 | Electrical ___, industrial revolution invention that modernized communication in the 19th century |
| 33% | RAP | 3 | The genre of music that Tupac Shakur belongs to |