| 100% | DROPIT | 6 | "Move on!" ... or how to decipher the 16 starred clues |
| 51% | OUTOFSORTS | 10 | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 49% | BLACKCOMEDY | 11 | Morbid humor ... or a hint to how the thematic clues in this puzzle reimagine representation on TV? |
| 46% | WRAP | 4 | With 61-Down, "Get a move on!" and an instruction for the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | INITIALLY | 9 | At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? |
| 43% | DOTHEMATH | 9 | "Figure it out!" … or how to arrive at this puzzle's solution, using the answers to italicized clues |
| 43% | DOWNTOASCIENCE | 14 | Implementable with expertise and expert ease … or how the starred clues' answers can be taken? |
| 42% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 42% | TAXI | 4 | Move on or off the runway |
| 41% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 41% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 41% | ACUTABOVE | 9 | On another level, or a clue to the starts of 3-, 4-, 11- and 27-Down |
| 41% | BUGSOUT | 7 | Leaves in a hurry, or a hint to the cluing of the starred answers |
| 41% | BACKTOBACK | 10 | How TV episodes are binge-watched ... or how to turn each word in the answers to the starred clues into a new phrase |
| 40% | OUTOFORDERSIGNS | 15 | Some bathroom postings ... or what the clues to 16-, 21-, 46- and 59-Across are? |
| 40% | FRUITTOPPING | 12 | Dessert add-on ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 40% | UPSIDEDOWN | 10 | How the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all appear |
| 40% | TRADEMARKS | 10 | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| 40% | LEVO | 4 | On or to the left |
| 40% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 40% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 39% | OUTSIDE | 7 | On or to the exterior of |
| 39% | ATBOTHENDS | 10 | How the answer to each of the nine starred clues repeats |
| 39% | INBED | 5 | How breakfast may be served ... or how the answers to the eight starred clues should be entered? |
| 39% | SKIPTOWN | 8 | Run off … or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues |
| 39% | SEGUE | 5 | Move on to the next thing smoothly |
| 39% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 38% | ENTER | 5 | Key that moves the cursor to the next line ... or a hint to answering five clues in this puzzle |
| 38% | SCRAMBLEBANDS | 13 | College musicians making shapes on the field, or do what this puzzle does to the once-recognizable starred phrases |