100% | VIOLIN | 6 | "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a ___; what else does a man need to be happy?": Albert Einstein |
34% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
34% | FILLINGUPWITHGAS | 16 | Pre-road trip detail ... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them |
33% | WASHINGUP | 9 | Involves a sink and needs to be done after a meal |
32% | DRYOFF | 6 | What a bath towel is needed to do: 2 wds. |
32% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
32% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
31% | BREAKINGBAD | 11 | #3 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time (as of 2016) ... and a hint to what the black squares are doing in four rows of this puzzle |
31% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
31% | SKIPINTRO | 9 | Command to bypass a recap of prior episodes ... and what the puzzle circles do |
30% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
30% | USER | 4 | What a PEBCAK (“Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard”) error is attributed to |
30% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
30% | FETCH | 5 | What a dog may do to the last parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
30% | WORKSHANDINHAND | 15 | Collaborates closely, and a literal hint to what each of 16-, 23-, 45- and 58-Across does |
30% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
30% | PROTEINSHAKE | 12 | Post-workout nourishment, and a hint to what can be found in each set of circled letters |
30% | ONIT | 4 | Doing what needs to be done |
29% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
29% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
29% | KEYLESSENTRY | 12 | Modern way into a building, and what each answer to 20-, 29-, and 43-Across needs to be to match its clue? |
29% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
29% | LIT | 3 | What a candle needs to be before it can shed light |
29% | GRABFORTYINKS | 13 | What an exhausted, but enthusiastic, tattooist might do if asked to go and get supplies in a variety of colors? |
29% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
29% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
29% | THEFORCE | 8 | "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review |
29% | PHOTOFINISH | 11 | End of a close race ... and what the last part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
29% | EXCHANGINGRINGS | 15 | Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
29% | ITSACIRCUS | 10 | Reaction to a frenzied scene, and what could be said of the beginnings of the starred answers |