| 100% | ROBOCOP | 7 | "The Future of Law Enforcement," according to a 1987 movie |
| 51% | ROBOCOP | 7 | "The future of law enforcement" |
| 49% | VARIETY | 7 | The spice of life, according to a saying |
| 48% | ARP | 3 | "Constellation According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 46% | ARP | 3 | "Collage With Squares Arranged According to the Laws of Chance" artist |
| 46% | PRADA | 5 | What the devil wears, according to a 2006 movie |
| 45% | CATS | 4 | What Grizabella and Skimbleshanks are, according to the title of a Broadway musical |
| 45% | LAPD | 4 | First law enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) |
| 45% | COMEBACK | 8 | What Valerie Cherish made, according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series |
| 45% | ASS | 3 | The law is one, according to a Dickens line |
| 43% | OSE | 3 | Monosaccharides are named according to a Greek prefix to indicate the number of carbon atoms followed by this suffix, meaning "sugar" |
| 43% | EBERT | 5 | First movie critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 42% | MONSTERS | 8 | "Godzilla: King of the ___," 2019 movie which is a prequel to "Godzilla vs. Kong" |
| 42% | FLASHFORWARD | 12 | Narrative device that peeks at the future ... and a hint to the start of 20-, 31-, and 48-Across |
| 42% | POOR | 4 | According to The World Bank, in 2015, 734 million people were this, a change from 1990's figure of 1.9 billion |
| 41% | STARIN | 6 | "It takes a lot of talent to ___ such a movie" (play the lead part): 2 wds. |
| 41% | MALORT | 6 | Chicago liquor that, according to the Times, “tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires” |
| 41% | EBERT | 5 | "The Future of the Movies" co-author |
| 41% | RCMP | 4 | Law enforcement north of the border |
| 41% | THEEVENINGSTAR | 14 | 1996 movie that was a sequel to the 1983 Best Picture winner "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 40% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1978 John Belushi movie, and a hint to the first three or four letters of the starred answers |
| 40% | AEA | 3 | According to Apollonius of Rhodes, this was the main city of Colchis, a land on the east coast of what is now the Black Sea |
| 40% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 40% | MARKETOPENING | 13 | What ringing a certain bell signals, and a hint to the first words of this puzzle's movie titles |
| 39% | JUDE | 4 | Law of the movies |
| 39% | LEA | 3 | Actress Thompson of the "Back to the Future" movies |
| 39% | ANIMUS | 6 | According to Carl Jung, masculine side of a female |
| 39% | TAROT | 5 | A deck of cards used to tell the future |
| 39% | ORPHEUS | 7 | The father of songs, according to Pindar |
| 39% | ELOPERS | 7 | Visitors to a justice of the peace |