| 100% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 81% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 80% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 79% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 72% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 72% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 71% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 70% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | Reason for a courtroom objection, and what the start of the answer to each starred clue has |
| 68% | ITSAWHOLETHING | 14 | "Too complicated to explain," and a way to describe the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 68% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 68% | PETPEEVES | 9 | Irritating behaviors, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues may be? |
| 67% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 67% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 67% | COATTAILS | 9 | Features of some formal jackets, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 65% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 65% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 64% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 64% | BLACKANDWHITE | 13 | Clear-cut, and what each part of the answers to the starred clues can follow, respectively |
| 64% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "Get ready!" ... or what to do upon hearing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 64% | ZIPFILE | 7 | Compressed data ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues form? |
| 63% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 63% | SHAKYGROUND | 11 | With "on," not strong, as an argument ... and what might cause the ends of answers to starred clues? |
| 63% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 63% | CHANGINGTHEGAME | 15 | Innovating ... or what the end of the answer to each starred entry is doing? |
| 63% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 63% | TRAINCREW | 9 | Engineer, brakeman and conductor ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues comprise? |
| 63% | FISHTAIL | 8 | Swerve back and forth, as a car's rear end, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue |
| 62% | ENDGAME | 7 | Chess match climax, and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can have |
| 62% | GREENBACK | 9 | Dollar bill, e.g. ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 62% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |