| 100% | ITSADELIGHT | 11 | "I love this!" ... or, phonetically, remark about the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 64% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 62% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 62% | REDCROSS | 8 | Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 58% | BURN | 4 | "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | HOT | 3 | Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 57% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 56% | GOONAHEAD | 9 | "Don't wait for me to proceed" ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue can do? |
| 55% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ___ or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 55% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 55% | FOLLOWINGTHE | 12 | With 58-Down, a patient process? ... or a hint to two consecutive letters in the answer to each of the seven starred clues |
| 55% | FEMALELEAD | 10 | Feature of "Alien," "Mulan" or "Clueless" … or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 54% | THATWASNTON | 11 | With 70-Down, "Never would've predicted this scenario," and what can be said about the first word of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 54% | LOOPDELOOPS | 11 | Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 54% | INITIALLY | 9 | At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? |
| 54% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | FINALSCORE | 10 | Game-ending result ... or what each of the answers to starred clues has? |
| 54% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | PUTAPININTHAT | 13 | "Let's revisit it later" ... or what one can do to each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | ADHOMINEM | 9 | Kind of fallacious argument … or, phonetically, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | ATBOTHENDS | 10 | How the answer to each of the nine starred clues repeats |
| 53% | MIXEDMETAPHOR | 13 | Answer to each of the six starred clues, literally |
| 53% | CHEWTOY | 7 | Puppy amuser ... or the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | EARLYBIRD | 9 | Morning person, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 53% | WHITEHOUSEDOG | 13 | What the answer to each of the six starred clues starts with |
| 52% | WISECRACK | 9 | Witticism ... or, literally, a description of the answer to each of the four starred clues? |
| 52% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 52% | HALFMEASURE | 11 | Paltry effort, or a literal description of the answer to each starred clue |