| 100% | FALLINTOPLACE | 13 | Begin to make sense |
| 68% | SPREADSHEET | 11 | Begin to make a bed? |
| 66% | SORTINGOUT | 10 | Trying to make sense of |
| 66% | SORTOUT | 7 | Try to make sense of |
| 65% | SANKIN | 6 | Started to make sense (2 wds.) |
| 64% | ADDUP | 5 | Make sense, so to speak |
| 62% | ADDUP | 5 | Amount to, make sense |
| 62% | ADDUP | 5 | Make sense or total to: 2 wds. |
| 61% | ISEE | 4 | "It makes sense to me" |
| 61% | ISEE | 4 | "That makes sense to me" |
| 60% | IGETIT | 6 | "This makes sense to me now" |
| 60% | PIGOUT | 6 | Ingurgitate, and a hint to making sense of the starred clues |
| 59% | IMLOST | 6 | "This is not making sense to me" |
| 59% | ISEE | 4 | "That makes sense to me": 2 wds. |
| 59% | FELLINTOPLACE | 13 | Began making sense, as clues |
| 59% | RAINOUT | 7 | Ballpark bummer, and a hint to making sense of the starred answers |
| 58% | IGETIT | 6 | "That joke makes sense to me": 3 wds. |
| 58% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 57% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 57% | ANDCUT | 6 | Director's call, plus a hint to making sense of eight Across answers |
| 56% | ADDUP | 5 | Make sense, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | DISAPPEARINGINK | 15 | Medium for secret messages, and a hint to making sense of 12 Down answers |
| 56% | IGET | 4 | "Now ___ it!" ("Now it makes sense to me!"): 2 wds. |
| 56% | DEBUG | 5 | Work on software, and work to make sense of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | IMLOST | 6 | "That made no sense to me" |
| 55% | IMLOST | 6 | “This makes no sense to me” |
| 55% | BAA | 3 | Lamb's sound ... which must be "silenced" to make sense of the starred clues' answers |
| 55% | GETBENTOUTOFSHA | 15 | Blow a gasket, and a clue to making sense of some answers in this puzzle |
| 55% | COUP | 4 | Overthrow, or, if reparsed, a hint to making sense of four pairs of Across answers |
| 54% | POPUPAD | 7 | Bit of Web clutter, and a hint to making sense of four answers in this puzzle |