| 100% | COFFEEBREAK | 11 | Alternate puzzle title (see answers to the four sets of starred clues) |
| 48% | FIVEWS | 6 | Journalism's traditional set of questions, obliquely addressed by the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | JUNKDRAWER | 10 | Location for the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 46% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 46% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 44% | FISHERMEN | 9 | What the answers to the four starred clues are? |
| 44% | 90SFADS | 7 | What the answers to the four starred clues are |
| 44% | MIXEDMETAPHOR | 13 | Answer to each of the six starred clues, literally |
| 44% | NOTWOSOUNDALIKE | 15 | What's odd about the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 44% | MIDTERM | 7 | Kind of exam, with a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 43% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 43% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 43% | BITTEREND | 9 | R? … or a hint to the answers of the five starred clues |
| 43% | HONEYIMHOME | 11 | Cry after navigating the last parts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 42% | THEDAILYJUMBLE | 14 | Answer to the riddle (After unscrambling the four starred clues, arrange the circled letters to form the answer) |
| 42% | SUPERBOWLSUNDAY | 15 | Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues |
| 42% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 42% | TIMEAFTERTIME | 13 | Repeatedly ... and a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 42% | ACIDTEST | 8 | Ordeal ... and a hint to the initials of the answers to starred clues |
| 42% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 42% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Coiner of the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 41% | HOWTOFIX | 8 | With 22-Down, what the ends of the answers to the four starred clues are examples of |
| 41% | DONMCLEAN | 9 | Singer of the lyric formed by the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 41% | FRUITLESS | 9 | Unproductive ... or, literally, a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 41% | DRESSINGDOWNS | 13 | Severe reprimands, and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | ONYOURFEET | 10 | "Stand up!" ... and a hint to the beginnings of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | PLAYMATES | 9 | Sandbox sharers ... and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | HEAVYMETAL | 10 | Rock genre ... and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | COMMONSENSE | 11 | Practical judgment ... and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | BUGSOUT | 7 | Leaves in a hurry, or a hint to the cluing of the starred answers |