| 100% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 88% | WILDFLOWERS | 11 | Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 82% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 82% | SINKORSWIM | 10 | Success-versus-failure metaphor, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 76% | DOGTAGS | 7 | Military IDs on chains, and what can be found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 75% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 66% | ITSADEAL | 8 | "Agreed!" ... and what can be said about the start of the answers to starred clues |
| 66% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 63% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 61% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Revelation, or what can be found at the starts of the starred answers |
| 60% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 60% | AFEWCHOICEWORDS | 15 | Euphemism for rude expressions, and what can be found at the starts of 17-, 26-, and 48-Across |
| 59% | INNERGODDESS | 12 | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | SIDESALAD | 9 | Dish that may accompany a main course, and what can be found at the start of 17-, 25-, 38-, or 53-Across? |
| 58% | CHANGEAGENT | 11 | Modern innovator, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | CHOPPYWATERS | 12 | Rough sailing, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | BODYLANGUAGE | 12 | Nonverbal communication, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 58% | SAMESEXCOUPLES | 14 | Some partners, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 57% | CHANGEOFFORTUNE | 15 | Reversal in luck, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | WRAPPARTIES | 11 | Postshow cast celebrations, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | JUGBAND | 7 | *Where the starts of the answers to the five starred clues can all be found |
| 57% | UPSIDEDOWNCAKES | 15 | Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | GOLAST | 6 | Have the final turn, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 57% | AFTERDARK | 9 | At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go |
| 57% | ITSACIRCUS | 10 | Reaction to a frenzied scene, and what could be said of the beginnings of the starred answers |
| 56% | COMEDANCING | 11 | Kinks hit about the local palais, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 56% | DANCEMOVES | 10 | Moonwalk, running man, floss, et al., and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 56% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |