| 100% | CESTCHEESE | 10 | Answer to "What is Roquefort or Brie?"? |
| 59% | UPTHEANTE | 9 | Increase what is at stake ... or a hint to answering 20-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 58% | SHOWSTOPPER | 11 | Big musical number ... or what 60-Across is to four puzzle answers? |
| 58% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 58% | SCAMALERT | 9 | Warning to consumers, or what might be triggered by the starred answers |
| 58% | COMINGUPSHOR | 12 | Failing to meet expectations, or what this answer is |
| 57% | FORTHRIGHT | 10 | Straight to the point … or, homophonically, what this answer is relative to this puzzle? |
| 56% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 54% | TAKEOUTFOOD | 11 | Alternative to home cooking, or what should be done to the answers with circles |
| 54% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | GEEWHIZ | 7 | Beaver Cleaver expletive ... or what you might need to be to answer 18-, 23-, 51- and 60-Across? |
| 54% | EYELESS | 7 | Unable to see ... or, when taken as a homophone, what today's puzzle answers and clues all are |
| 53% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 53% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 53% | IAM | 3 | Answer to "Are you or are you not?" |
| 52% | ANYTAKERS | 9 | "Who's interested?" ... or, phonetically, what four answers in this puzzle are vis-à-vis the answers next to them |
| 52% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | TRIPLECROWN | 11 | What was won by the answer to each capitalized clue |
| 51% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 50% | NO | 2 | With 38-Across, what a two-letter answer is in a crossword, usually ... or a hint to 20-, 24-, 44- and 51-Across |
| 50% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 50% | TURNSOFPHRASE | 13 | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| 50% | ARTE | 4 | What music or dance is to a Spanish |
| 50% | CALORIES | 8 | What's been added to the starred answers |
| 50% | ANAGRAM | 7 | What "vile" or "live" is to "evil" |
| 50% | NOTALLTHER | 10 | Dimwitted, or what this answer is |
| 49% | SHOWDOWNS | 9 | Decisive confrontations ... or what the answers to the six starred clues are? |
| 49% | NOLETMETHINK | 12 | Paradoxical answer to "Can you say what 'nyet' is Russian for?" |
| 49% | SISTER | 6 | What Beth, Amy or Meg is, to Jo |
| 49% | ASHIP | 5 | Answer to the riddle “I have one bow but no arrows. What am I?” |