| 100% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 69% | ENDSINATIE | 10 | Concludes with no clear winner ... and what each answer to a starred clue does? |
| 68% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 61% | CLASSACTION | 11 | Group lawsuit ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 61% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Familiar slogan ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 61% | STUFFEDCLAM | 11 | Seafood appetizer, and what each answer to a starred clue literally is? |
| 61% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantageous position, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| 60% | FINALTOUCH | 10 | Last detail that makes things perfect ... and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 59% | HOLISTICDIET | 12 | Component of balanced health ... and what each answer to a starred clue looks like it should be part of? |
| 58% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 57% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 57% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 57% | WORKOUTINTHEEND | 15 | Come to a satisfying conclusion, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 57% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 56% | ENDGAME | 7 | Chess match climax, and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can have |
| 56% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 56% | HIDE | 4 | With 73-Across, space-saving furniture, and what the answers to the starred clues each do |
| 56% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 56% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 56% | CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR | 15 | "Not quite!," and what can be said about a letter string in the answer to each starred clue |
| 55% | GOGREEN | 7 | Make ecologically sound decisions, and a hint to what the starred answers do |
| 55% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 54% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 54% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 54% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 54% | ENDGAME | 7 | Last stage of a chess match, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| 53% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 53% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 52% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 52% | THREESOMES | 10 | Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones |