| 100% | MIST | 4 | Spike's 2017 short-lived "The ___", a sci-fi horror thriller |
| 49% | ALIENS | 6 | 80's sci-fi thriller film starring Sigourney Weaver that is a sequel to a horror film of the same name |
| 43% | ALIENROMULUS | 12 | New sci-fi horror movie that's the seventh film in a franchise that began in 1979: 2 wds. |
| 42% | PSYCHO | 6 | Horror thriller featuring a home inspired by Edward Hopper's "House by the Railroad" |
| 40% | ALIENCOVENANT | 13 | 2017 sci-fi thriller with the tagline "Discover the Origin of Terror" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | COVENANT | 8 | Sci-fi horror film directed by Ridley Scott, "Alien: ___," which is a sequel to "Prometheus," and released in 2017 |
| 39% | ALTEREDSTATES | 13 | 1980 sci-fi thriller ... or a hint to the answers to the six starred clues |
| 38% | AREA | 4 | "___ 51," 2015 sci-fi horror film with the number of a famous, highly classified Air Force facility in its title |
| 37% | MEG | 3 | Sci-fi thriller about a seventy-foot shark (with “The”) (August, 2018) |
| 37% | LOU | 3 | The 2017 Pixar short film about a creature living in a lost-and-found box in a kindergarten playground |
| 36% | FLY | 3 | "The ___," 1986 sci-fi horror film starring Jeff Goldblum about a scientist whose experiment fails |
| 36% | CURSE | 5 | "Hagazussa: A Heathen's ___," 2017 horror film directed by Lukas Feigelfeld that is set in the woods |
| 35% | JIGSAW | 6 | 2017 horror film with the tagline "We All Have a Part to Play" |
| 35% | SING | 4 | Winner of the 2017 Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film |
| 35% | THING | 5 | "The ___," 1982 sci-fi horror film starring Kurt Russell that got a nostalgic nod in "Stranger Things" |
| 35% | CRAZIES | 7 | The __, sci-fi horror about military virus |
| 35% | HANNIBAL | 8 | Horror thriller TV series named after the protagonist who is a forensic psychiatrist and cannibal played by Mads Mikkelsen |
| 35% | EARTHAND | 8 | Sci-fi novel, A House Between __ the Moon |
| 34% | SHOUT | 5 | The —, 1978 horror film starring Alan Bates based on a short story by Robert Graves |
| 34% | TRANSFORMERS | 12 | American sci-fi action film "___: The Last Knight," with a budget of over $250 million and one of the most expensive movies of 2017 |
| 34% | ALONGPARTYLINES | 15 | The club's bouncer earned a living … |
| 34% | BALDWIN | 7 | Alec who was the subject of a Spike TV roast on July 9, 2017 |
| 33% | TIMETRAVELING | 13 | Sci-fi trope, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 33% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |
| 33% | DEN | 3 | The Lion's ___ ( a place where Lions live) |
| 33% | SKY | 3 | "Fire in the ___," 1993 sci-fi movie centered around a man's alien abduction experience |
| 33% | JETSONS | 7 | "The ___," animated sci-fi sitcom about space that revolves around a high-tech family who live in Orbit City |
| 33% | ANOTHERDIMENSION | 16 | What a sci-fi portal might lead to ... or what's added successively to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | ALIEN | 5 | Sci-fi film with a creature inspired by Francis Bacon's "Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion" |
| 32% | IROBOT | 6 | 2004 sci-fi thriller inspired by a classic 1950 book |