| 100% | UCLA | 4 | Answer to the joke “What happens when the smog clears over Hollywood?” |
| 62% | UCLA | 4 | School that's the answer to the joke "What happens when the fog lifts in SoCal?" |
| 53% | SMOG | 4 | Q: What happens when the ___ clears over Los Angeles? A: UCLA! |
| 49% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?" |
| 49% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the fish say when it swam into a wall?" |
| 49% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke “What did the fish say when it swam into the concrete wall?” |
| 43% | TULIPS | 6 | Answer to the joke "What flowers grow on your face?" |
| 43% | EYETEST | 7 | What all the answers to should be clear? |
| 42% | ATREE | 5 | Answer to the joke: "What has lots of bark, but no bite?" |
| 42% | DAM | 3 | Answer to the joke "What did the beaver say after stubbing its toe?" |
| 42% | SAILS | 5 | Travels over what's hidden in the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 42% | BLACKANDWHITE | 13 | Clear-cut, and what each part of the answers to the starred clues can follow, respectively |
| 41% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 41% | BRIDGES | 7 | Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 40% | AHEADOF | 7 | Leading, or, when parsed differently, what can lead into the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | CANIBUYAVOWEL | 13 | What you might cry when trying to answer the six starred clues? |
| 39% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | STOCKEXCHANGE | 13 | Wall Street site, and what happened in order to form the answers to the starred clues? |
| 38% | RIDESHARING | 11 | Service offered by 18-Down, and what's happening in the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | AHAT | 4 | Answer to the old riddle "What lies flat when empty, sits up when full?" |
| 38% | ALTOGETHER | 10 | On the whole ... or, when read in two parts, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 38% | ONTOPOFTHEWORLD | 15 | Answer to the joke, "How did the climber feel after summiting Mount Everest?" |
| 38% | FOODCHAIN | 9 | Hierarchical system … or what is formed when the answers to the starred clues are placed end to end |
| 38% | WHEREITSAT | 10 | Best place to be, slangily ... and, when divided in four parts, what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 38% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 38% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 37% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 37% | ABANDON | 7 | Leave high and dry ... or, when divided into three parts, what the answers to starred clues are encompassed by |
| 37% | DIVORCE | 7 | What happens when a marriage has to end |
| 37% | MIND | 4 | What surrounds the answers to the starred clues |