| 100% | INITIALLY | 9 | At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer? |
| 58% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 55% | 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 |
| 53% | GREENNEWDEAL | 12 | Proposed climate legislation ... or an apt description for the first five letters of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | XOXO | 4 | Affectionate sign-off … or a pattern hinting at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 52% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 51% | IMTAKEN | 7 | Polite rejection at a dance ... or a hint to each half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | CHANGESONESTUNE | 15 | Starts looking at things differently, as demonstrated by the first words of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | TIMESHARE | 9 | Vacation lodging purchase ... or an arrangement between the two halves of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 51% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 51% | STUFFIT | 7 | "Shut up already!" ... or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 51% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 50% | ONE | 3 | Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | BUILDUP | 7 | Create high expectations for, or an apt description of the first part of the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | ATBOTHENDS | 10 | How the answer to each of the nine starred clues repeats |
| 49% | 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 |
| 49% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 49% | HITIT | 5 | "Start the music!" ... or what one could do to the finish of the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | GRANDOPENING | 12 | Ribbon-cutting event, or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 49% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 48% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 48% | MACOPERATINGSYSTEMS | 19 | Things found at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 48% | OCEAN | 5 | Body that appears at the start of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 48% | NUTSANDBOLTS | 12 | Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are |
| 47% | NOCLUE | 6 | "Haven't the foggiest!" … or, when the first two letters are put at the end, an essential part of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | AFTERDARK | 9 | At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go |
| 47% | CHEWTOY | 7 | Puppy amuser ... or the end of the answer to each starred clue |