| 100% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 57% | TWISTOFLEMON | 12 | Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | FOLLOWINGTHE | 12 | With 58-Down, a patient process? ... or a hint to two consecutive letters in the answer to each of the seven starred clues |
| 50% | ALLABOARD | 9 | Train conductor's cry … or a hint to each word in the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | DEADENDS | 8 | Unfruitful paths ... or a description of both words in the answers to the seven starred clues? |
| 48% | CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR | 15 | "Not quite!," and what can be said about a letter string in the answer to each starred clue |
| 48% | IMTAKEN | 7 | Polite rejection at a dance ... or a hint to each half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 48% | TWICE | 5 | The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain |
| 48% | ALTOGETHER | 10 | On the whole ... or, when read in two parts, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 48% | HEADFIRST | 9 | Impetuously ... or what can go on each part of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 48% | HIDDENGEM | 9 | Diamond in the rough ... or a literal feature of each answer to a starred clue |
| 47% | BROKEN | 6 | With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt description of each answer to a starred clue |
| 47% | KEEP | 4 | Hang on to ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 47% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 46% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 46% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 46% | WISECRACK | 9 | Witticism ... or, literally, a description of the answer to each of the four starred clues? |
| 45% | BACKTOBACK | 10 | How TV episodes are binge-watched ... or how to turn each word in the answers to the starred clues into a new phrase |
| 45% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 45% | CHANGEOFHEART | 13 | Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 45% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 45% | EARLYBIRD | 9 | Morning person, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 45% | LOOPDELOOPS | 11 | Upside-down parts of a roller coaster ride — represented twice in the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 44% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 44% | BUGSOUT | 7 | Leaves in a hurry, or a hint to the cluing of the starred answers |
| 44% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 44% | DOWNFEATHERS | 12 | Warm winter coat contents ... or what is present in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 44% | INTHEPAST | 9 | Back then ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 44% | ROOM | 4 | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |