| 100% | GROUCHOMARXMUSTACHE | 19 | "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"? |
| 47% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ___ or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 46% | DROPIT | 6 | "That'll be enough of that subject" ... and a hint to solving the answers to starred clues |
| 46% | GALILEO | 7 | Astronomer who was the first to discover that the Milky Way was made up of stars |
| 45% | UNITED | 6 | American airline that is part of the Star Alliance and can take you to your travel destination |
| 45% | WATER | 5 | "Avatar: The Way of ___," 2022 film starring Zoe Saldana that is a sequel to a 2009 film |
| 45% | NATURALGAS | 10 | Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita |
| 45% | IMONTHEPHONE | 12 | Mouthed words that can also be said while doing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | PROSANDCONS | 11 | Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues |
| 44% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 44% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 44% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 44% | CLINE | 5 | Patsy ___, "Walkin' After Midnight" singer who was one of the first country stars to cross over to pop music charts |
| 43% | TAPE | 4 | Word after "mix" to mean a handmade playlist of music on a cassette or CD that has been "lost" to time |
| 43% | WHEAT | 5 | Grain that isn’t used at the restaurant Owamni because it was introduced to the Americas after the arrival of Europeans |
| 43% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 43% | ALIENS | 6 | 80's sci-fi thriller film starring Sigourney Weaver that is a sequel to a horror film of the same name |
| 43% | BROTHERS | 8 | Relationship of the Marxes, stars of Duck Soup |
| 43% | AFL | 3 | NYSE symbol of the co. that had a duck in the opening credits of May's "Scoob!" |
| 43% | LETO | 4 | Jared ___, I'm the frontman of 30 Seconds to Mars and a film star born the day after Christmas. Who am I? |
| 42% | SHEREENORTH | 11 | Co-star of the 1955 comedy "How to Be Very, Very Popular" |
| 42% | SUN | 3 | Star that a day of the week is named after |
| 42% | GALWAY | 6 | "___ Girl," song by English singer Ed Sheeran which has the name of an Irish city in its title that is home to Eyre Square |
| 41% | DRIL | 4 | Influential Weird Twitter account that, after being verified without its permission by Elon Musk, tweeted, "Now that i have the baneful blue mark, I undertand the pain ive wrought. i was wrong to torment dog coin guys. im jealous of their million's" |
| 41% | BLISTERED | 9 | Of skin that is broken and sore due to friction |
| 41% | SILVER | 6 | The kind of lining every cloud is said to have |
| 41% | WIZARD | 6 | "The ___ of Oz," 1939 technicolor classic starring Judy Garland that has been re-released in theaters multiple times |
| 41% | TWEETS | 6 | Social media posts like @dril's "awfully bold of you to fly the Good Year blimp on a year that has been extremely bad thus far" |
| 41% | FOUND | 5 | ___ to be missing, oxymoron that describes the case of a missing Christmas pie |