| 100% | PIGLATIN | 8 | "Language" that explains the answers to the six starred clues |
| 76% | LINE | 4 | Word that can follow each part of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 71% | ENDZONE | 7 | Area that sees lots of spikes, in a way...and a feature in each answer to the six starred clues |
| 69% | IIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ | 15 | What might tempt the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 68% | CAPITALOFFENSES | 15 | Pun-crimes committed by the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 68% | MARRIEDMEN | 10 | Bachelors no more ... or, literally, the answers to the six starred clues |
| 68% | OMEN | 4 | Sign ... or a description of the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 68% | ABSTRACTART | 11 | What may be created using the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 68% | SHOWDOWNS | 9 | Decisive confrontations ... or what the answers to the six starred clues are? |
| 67% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 67% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 67% | DONTTAKETHEBAIT | 15 | Warning for easily provoked types ... or for the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 67% | ERS | 3 | Hosp. parts ... or what the answers to the six starred clues each have twice |
| 66% | ALLIN | 5 | Poker phrase ... or what's needed to complete the answers to the six starred clues |
| 66% | SECRETCODE | 10 | What the answers to the six starred clues follow, as hinted at by 66-Across |
| 66% | BOOKEND | 7 | Shelf prop ... or a hint to both parts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 66% | FREE | 4 | Like the initial letters of the answers to the six starred clues, on "Wheel of Fortune" |
| 66% | OPENDOOR | 8 | Welcoming symbol ... or what each part of the answers to the six starred clues can do? |
| 65% | ENDSUPONTOP | 11 | Prevails eventually … or a hint to entering the answers to the six starred clues in this puzzle |
| 65% | JAPANESE | 8 | Language that gave us the words heard phonetically in the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | PERPS | 5 | Those "walking" through the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | THERESNOWHERETOGOBUTU | 21 | Optimist's phrase under adverse circumstances ... or a hint to completing the answers to the six starred clues |
| 65% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 65% | TRIPLE | 6 | With 39-Across, impressive basketball feat ... or a feature shared by the answers to the six starred clues |
| 64% | POWER | 5 | Word that can follow the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 64% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 64% | SMOKE | 5 | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 64% | FIRE | 4 | Word that can combine with the ends of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 64% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 64% | HINT | 4 | "The first word of the answer to each of the six starred clues describes the number of that clue," e.g. |