| 100% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 54% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 53% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | MIDDLEMAN | 9 | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| 49% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 47% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 46% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 44% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 44% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 43% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 43% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 42% | BREAKALEG | 9 | What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues |
| 41% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 41% | DROPPINGBY | 10 | Visiting, and a hint to what we're doing in five Across answers |
| 41% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 41% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 41% | FILLINTHEBLANKS | 15 | Provide missing info ... and what four clues do to their answers |
| 40% | IBEFOREE | 8 | General spelling rule, and what must be imagined in the starred clues to make them accurate |
| 39% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 38% | NOHESITATION | 12 | "Proceed with confidence!," and how to make the answers to 20-, 31-, and 43-Across match their clues |
| 38% | TRADEMARKS | 10 | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| 38% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 38% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 38% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 38% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't forget to write," and what you must do in 13-, 24- and 43-Across |
| 37% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 37% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 37% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 37% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 36% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |