| 100% | HAWKING | 7 | Stephen —, British theoretical physicist whose books include The Nature of Space and Time |
| 37% | RUSSELL | 7 | Astrologer and television presenter whose books include The Real Counties of Britain |
| 37% | HAWKING | 7 | Theoretical physicist Stephen, whose life is portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the 2014 film "The Theory of Everything" |
| 36% | BROOK | 5 | Peter —, British theatre director whose books include 1968's The Empty Space |
| 34% | GRANT | 5 | Russell —, astrologer and television presenter whose books include The Real Counties of Britain |
| 33% | DERREN | 6 | & 17D Television and stage performer whose books include Tricks of the Mind and Confessions of a Conjuror |
| 32% | WATERLOW | 8 | Ernest Albert —, British painter whose works include The Banks of the River Loing and Suffolk Marshes |
| 32% | ICKE | 4 | David —, former footballer and television presenter whose books include Children of the Matrix |
| 32% | ICKE | 4 | David —, former footballer and TV presenter whose books include Children of the Matrix |
| 32% | JANEHARPER | 10 | 18-Across and 33-Across writer whose novel "The Dry" won the British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 2018 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | BAGEL | 5 | Item whose varieties include the endings of 20-, 28- and 46-Across |
| 31% | SATANISTS | 9 | Worshippers whose symbols include the inverted pentagram and the Sigil of Baphomet |
| 30% | SACKS | 5 | Oliver —, late British neurologist whose books include 1985's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales |
| 30% | REM | 3 | Band whose albums include "Out of Time" and "Monster" |
| 30% | GILL | 4 | Eric —, British sculptor and typographer whose works include 1914 print Slaughter of the Innocents |
| 30% | PETER | 5 | & 6D British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices |
| 29% | RUSSELL | 7 | Bertrand —, British philosopher whose books include Principles of Mathematics |
| 29% | UNI | 3 | Prefix with "verse" for all of space and time |
| 29% | ASTRONOMY | 9 | The study of space and the universe |
| 29% | RUDKIN | 6 | David —, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light |
| 29% | LPGA | 4 | Group whose Players of the Year have included Lorena Ochoa and Karrie Webb: Abbr. |
| 29% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 29% | PAISIELLO | 9 | Giovanni —, Italian composer whose operas include The Barber of Seville and Proserpine |
| 29% | GIRAUDOUX | 9 | Jean —, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine |
| 29% | LAING | 5 | R D —, Scottish psychiatrist whose books include The Divided Self |
| 29% | GALBRAITH | 9 | J K —, economist whose books include The New Industrial State |
| 29% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 29% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Actor whose films include “Beasts of No Nation” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” |
| 28% | KEN | 3 | Jennings whose books include "Maphead" and "Brainiac" |