| 100% | CHANGEDONESTUNE | 15 | Adopted a new attitude, or what music producers did to create the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | HITIT | 5 | "Start the music!" ... or what one could do to the finish of the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 53% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 52% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 52% | DOUBLETAKE | 10 | Surprised reaction ... or a hint to what can precede both halves of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |
| 52% | ROOMFORDESSERT | 14 | Question from a server, or what was needed to create the answer to each starred clue |
| 52% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 51% | CUTTHECARDS | 11 | Prepare a deck before dealing, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 51% | AUTOCOMPLETE | 12 | Search engine feature ... or what you literally need to do to answer the six starred clues |
| 49% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | FILLERWORD | 10 | Sound added to everyday speech, and what's been added to create the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | PROSANDCONS | 11 | Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 49% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues |
| 49% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 49% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues? |
| 49% | OUTANDOUT | 9 | Complete, or what can follow both parts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | GIVEITAREST | 11 | "Enough already!" or what one may do to each answer to a starred clue |
| 49% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 49% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 48% | TAKETHAT | 8 | "So there!" ... or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | SHREDDEDWHEAT | 13 | Breakfast cereal ... or a hint to what's found in the answers to the four starred clues? |
| 48% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 48% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 48% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 48% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |