| 100% | NOHESITATION | 12 | "Proceed with confidence!," and how to make the answers to 20-, 31-, and 43-Across match their clues |
| 62% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 60% | TRADEMARKS | 10 | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| 57% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 57% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 54% | SKIPTOWN | 8 | Run off … or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues |
| 54% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 52% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 50% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 47% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |
| 46% | ONTHEEDGE | 9 | Exciting but dangerous way to live, and a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 46% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 46% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 46% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 45% | EASTTOWEST | 10 | How the sun proceeds ... and how to read the answers to 17-, 37- and 56-Across |
| 45% | EVENSOUT | 8 | Balances, or, phonetically, how to make 18-, 32-, and 39-Across match their clues? |
| 45% | WESTTOEAST | 10 | How the jet stream proceeds ... and how to read the answers to 17-, 37- and 56-Across |
| 45% | KEYLESSENTRY | 12 | Modern way into a building, and what each answer to 20-, 29-, and 43-Across needs to be to match its clue? |
| 43% | THEENDISJUST | 12 | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 42% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 42% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 42% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 41% | YOUHADTOBETHERE | 15 | "It was even funnier at the time," or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 40% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 40% | FISH | 4 | Use the items found at the ends of the answers to 20-, 31-, 47- and 56-Across |
| 40% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 40% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | What's found on some canapés (and hiding in the answers to 20-, 31-, 38- and 49-Across?) |
| 40% | INITIAL | 7 | With 36-Across, first encounter, or what the answers to the starred clues make? |
| 39% | LEAD | 4 | With 69-Across, Iditarod front-runner ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues |