| 100% | HATE | 4 | What turns the sky dark, in the Twilight Zone episode "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" |
| 40% | SPECKS | 6 | What stars are in the night sky |
| 39% | ORANGE | 6 | What color is the black box in a commercial jet? |
| 33% | HULUPLUS | 8 | Subscription for streaming The Twilight Zone that was discontinued in 2015 |
| 33% | TENDER | 6 | What The Night is in Fitzgerald's 1934 novel |
| 32% | OUTER | 5 | With 7-Across, what's visible in the night sky |
| 32% | EARTH | 5 | Destination in The Twilight Zone's "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" |
| 32% | LSD | 3 | What "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" may or may not be about |
| 32% | MARS | 4 | "I spy something red." "Is it ___ up in the night sky?" "No." |
| 31% | CRICKET | 7 | I have thin wings and long legs. I chirp only in the night. Who am I? |
| 31% | MARS | 4 | It can be distinguished in the night sky by its reddish hue |
| 31% | MOON | 4 | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am silvery orb in the sky, lighting the way for the night traveler" |
| 31% | BLACK | 5 | Dark color of the sky on a starless night, or the color of a raven |
| 31% | MASHA | 5 | The Seagull character who says, "I dress in black to match my life. I am unhappy." |
| 31% | UFO | 3 | Sighting in the sky that might turn out to be a weather balloon: Abbr. |
| 30% | FIRES | 5 | Disasters that turned the midday sky dark orange in the Bay Area in September, 2020 |
| 30% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 30% | DANIELLEBROOKS | 14 | "Orange Is the New Black" actress who plays Sofia in "The Color Purple" (2 wds.) |
| 30% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 30% | WILL | 4 | I was one of the men in "Men in Black" and I'm also father to two singers |
| 30% | GOLAST | 6 | Have the final turn, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 30% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 30% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 30% | LIGHTS | 6 | Northern ___, aurora in the Arctic skies, a natural phenomenon turned out to be a tourist attraction |
| 30% | ART | 3 | ___ Vandelay, George's recurring fake character who turns out to be a real judge in the final "Seinfeld" episode |
| 30% | IDA | 3 | Lupino who was the only woman to direct an episode of the 1959 The Twilight Zone series |
| 29% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 29% | ISA | 3 | Erma Bombeck's "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | ISA | 3 | "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (Erma Bombeck book): 2 wds. |
| 29% | GREEN | 5 | I am the color of mistletoe |