| 100% | CHACHA | 6 | Bygone Internet search engine that employed human guides, at 2 cents per answer, to do the searching |
| 32% | AUTOCOMPLETE | 12 | Search engine feature ... or what you literally need to do to answer the six starred clues |
| 29% | GOOGOL | 6 | The search engine name that should have been spelled this way, maybe because they had no search engine to check at the time? |
| 28% | IDO | 3 | Answer to a question at the altar: 2 wds. |
| 26% | OCEAN | 5 | Body that appears at the start of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 26% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 25% | WEBSEARCH | 9 | "___ Engine," software system to find things on the Internet: 2 wds. |
| 25% | STRIKEOUT | 9 | Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 25% | FRANGLAIS | 9 | Hybrid linguistic term that hints at the answers to 17-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across |
| 25% | ROLEMODEL | 9 | A person that is often looked at as someone to follow in the footsteps of : 2 wds. |
| 25% | OZONELAYER | 10 | Shielding region in the stratosphere, that has a hole thanks to human activities: 2 wds. |
| 24% | YAHOO | 5 | ___ Search, Internet search engine that is owned by Verizon Media |
| 24% | PHASER | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 24% | RAYGUN | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 24% | DOLLARMENU | 10 | Budget option at a fast-food joint that the answers to the starred clues could all belong to? |
| 24% | IMONTHEPHONE | 12 | Mouthed words that can also be said while doing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 24% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 24% | ONE | 3 | Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 24% | OHIO | 4 | State that's the answer to the riddle "What's round at both ends and high in the middle?" |
| 24% | NEWYORK | 7 | Find the answer to the metaphor mystery: "I am a city that never sleeps, a concrete jungle": 2 wds. |
| 24% | YAHOO | 5 | Internet giant that began as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" in 1994 |
| 24% | SPORTCLIMBING | 13 | Wall-ascending event that was to make its debut at the 2020 Olympics: 2 wds. |
| 24% | GOOGLEEARTH | 11 | *Popular app that can view any of the places named at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 23% | IDO | 3 | Answer to the preacher at the altar |
| 23% | ITSME | 5 | Answer to "Who's that?": 2 wds. |
| 23% | WHOISIT | 7 | Answer to a knock at the door |
| 23% | NAVAL | 5 | To do with the military at sea |
| 23% | FORTYTWO | 8 | Number that’s the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” |
| 23% | SMARTTV | 7 | Home theater device that connects to the internet (2 wds.) |
| 22% | FORTYTWO | 8 | The answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything," per Douglas Adams |