| 100% | INVADE | 6 | What the aliens do in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 62% | MARS | 4 | Where the invading aliens come from in H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" |
| 60% | INVADERS | 8 | Martians, in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 60% | STOLEHOME | 9 | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series |
| 59% | EARTH | 5 | Planet invaded in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 59% | EARTHMEN | 8 | One side in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 59% | HEATRAY | 7 | Martian weapon in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 59% | HEATRAY | 7 | Martian's weapon in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 59% | HEATRAYS | 8 | Powerful beams fired in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 58% | HEATRAY | 7 | Martian weapon in "The War of the Worlds": 2 wds. |
| 57% | WED | 3 | What to do in the "Chapel of Love" |
| 57% | STOP | 4 | What to do in the name of love? |
| 56% | HYSTERIA | 8 | What 1938's "The War of the Worlds" broadcast set off |
| 56% | HEATRAYS | 8 | Weapons in Wells's "The War of the Worlds" |
| 56% | LOSE | 4 | What people do in casinos most of the time |
| 55% | MARS | 4 | The other world in H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" |
| 55% | INAUGURATE | 10 | What they'll do again in front of the Capitol in 2021 |
| 55% | INFECTION | 9 | Invaders were killed by this in War of the Worlds |
| 54% | ETS | 3 | Invaders in H. G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds,” for short |
| 54% | UNITE | 5 | What Communists want workers of the world to do |
| 53% | MARS | 4 | One of the worlds in "The War of the Worlds" |
| 53% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 52% | OLYMPICMEDDLE | 13 | What the Greek gods tended to do in the lives of mortals? |
| 52% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 52% | OTTO | 4 | Miranda —, Australian actress who played Mary Ann in 2005 action film War of the Worlds |
| 51% | OTTO | 4 | Miranda —, Australian actress whose roles include Mary Ann in 2005 action film War of the Worlds |
| 51% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 51% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 51% | AXIS | 4 | Foe of the Allies, in World War II |