| 100% | CROSSDRESSING | 13 | "Mrs. Doubtfire" plot device - or what the letters in this clue's answer do five times? |
| 49% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 48% | SLANT | 5 | What the letters in this clue do |
| 46% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 45% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 44% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 44% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 41% | WENTSOFT | 8 | Grew sentimental, or what the vowels did in answers to the paired clues |
| 41% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 41% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 40% | RAISEDTHEBAR | 12 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 40% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 40% | SPELT | 5 | Like this clue's answer, in five letters |
| 40% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 39% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 39% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 39% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 39% | SPELLITOUT | 10 | Leave no room for misinterpretation ... or what the first words of the answers to the five starred clues do, literally |
| 39% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 38% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 38% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 38% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 37% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 37% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | OPENHOUSE | 9 | Realtor's big day ... or what each word in the answers to the starred clues can do |
| 37% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | FALLAPART | 9 | Go to pieces, or what's literally hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 36% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | 3-2 ... or what's represented by the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |