| 100% | BINX | 4 | Thackery ___, human-turned-cat sidekick to the protagonists in "Hocus Pocus" |
| 50% | UNI | 3 | Magical one-horned animal who is a sidekick to the protagonists in the '80s animated show "Dungeons & Dragons" |
| 48% | SANCHO | 6 | ___ Panza, loyal squire who is a sidekick to the titular protagonist in "Don Quixote" |
| 39% | HURDENT | 7 | Protagonist in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" |
| 39% | MARTY | 5 | ___ McFly, time-traveling teenager who is the protagonist in "Back to the Future" |
| 38% | SKELETAL | 8 | Referring to the bones in the human body |
| 38% | CAPSIZE | 7 | To turn a boat over in the water |
| 37% | SHADE | 5 | Hades turned out to be in the shadows |
| 36% | OCELOTS | 7 | Cats with the unique ability to turn their ankle joints around |
| 36% | LOTS | 4 | ___ wife (woman who turned to salt in the Bible) |
| 36% | ALEXEI | 6 | Cosmonaut Leonov, the first human to walk in space |
| 36% | MARS | 4 | Where NASA plans to send humans in the 2030s |
| 36% | APE | 3 | Primate in the group most closely related to humans |
| 36% | ANNE | 4 | ___ Lewis, police officer who was partner and sidekick to RoboCop in the 1987 film |
| 36% | GRANDFATHER | 11 | What 18-Across is, to the other protagonist, Morty Smith, in "Rick and Morty" |
| 35% | AZRAEL | 6 | Cat that belongs to Gargamel, in The Smurfs |
| 35% | POWELL | 6 | Al ___, police sergeant who is a sidekick to McClane in the 1988 movie "Die Hard" |
| 35% | KEY | 3 | What you turn in the ignition switch to start a car |
| 34% | PAREIDOLIA | 10 | Phenomenon such as the tendency to see human forms in inanimate objects |
| 34% | SNARF | 5 | Cat-like alien who is Lion-O's sidekick in the 2011 television show "ThunderCats" |
| 33% | LSD | 3 | What the "turn on" part refers to in "Tune in, turn on, drop out" |
| 33% | UFO | 3 | Sighting in the sky that might turn out to be a weather balloon: Abbr. |
| 33% | OCHRE | 5 | Material used at Blombos Cave to create the earliest known human drawing in the world |
| 33% | OZONELAYER | 10 | Shielding region in the stratosphere, that has a hole thanks to human activities: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SCT | 3 | Intl. charitable org. which aims to save the big cats in China from extinction (abbr.) |
| 32% | SANDERSON | 9 | Last name of Winifred, Sarah & Mary in Hocus Pocus |
| 32% | WITCH | 5 | Winifred, Sarah or Mary in Hocus Pocus |
| 32% | LIGHTS | 6 | Northern ___, aurora in the Arctic skies, a natural phenomenon turned out to be a tourist attraction |
| 32% | ELIZA | 5 | Doolittle, the protagonist in My Fair Lady |
| 32% | BELLA | 5 | Protagonist in the "Twilight" books |