| 100% | MALORT | 6 | Chicago liquor that, according to the Times, “tastes a little like sucking dandelion juice through a straw made of car tires” |
| 30% | FRAGILE | 7 | *Found on a package: Label indicating that the object is prone to breakage, like that made of 5d |
| 29% | COMEBACK | 8 | What Valerie Cherish made, according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series |
| 29% | WALTERCHRYSLER | 14 | American industrialist who founded the company that made cars like the PT Cruiser, and is now a partner of Fiat |
| 28% | DELOREAN | 8 | Car that becomes a time machine in "Back to the Future" |
| 27% | BMW | 3 | Company that pivoted to making cars after The Treaty of Versailles |
| 27% | HENBIT | 6 | Common and widely distributed weed of the Lamium species that tastes a bit like peppered celery |
| 27% | EVADES | 6 | Gives the slip to the good guys, much like Joaquin Guzman has done a couple of times |
| 27% | EDSEL | 5 | Car whose grille “resembled an Oldsmobile sucking a lemon,” according to a 1959 Time article |
| 27% | BEET | 4 | ___ juice, drink made of a root vegetable that is known to be rich in antioxidants |
| 27% | SRT | 3 | Group that makes performance versions of cars like the Viper and the Hellcat: Abbr. |
| 27% | PARIS | 5 | "From hell to breakfast in ___," idiom with the French capital that means "go through a wide range of experiences" |
| 26% | MICHAELJORDAN | 13 | Chicago Bulls legend who according to Forbes is the highest-paid athlete of all time: 2 wds. |
| 26% | DELOREAN | 8 | DMC ___, car model that was modified into a time machine in "Back to the Future" |
| 26% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 26% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like "a duck if the duck were a songbird," according to Angels in America |
| 26% | ONLYFANS | 8 | 21st-century site that "helped mainstream the concept of the e-girlfriend," according to a Vox article |
| 26% | LOVENOTE | 8 | Mushy message, and the end of a sequence that progresses through the answers to the starred clues |
| 26% | EMPTY | 5 | Containing nothing, or a word that sounds like the initials of the answers to the starred clues |
| 26% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 26% | APT | 3 | Like the anagramming of A DECIMAL POINT to make I'M A DOT IN PLACE |
| 26% | ENE | 3 | Dir. that's to the right and a little up on a map |
| 26% | SEDIMENT | 8 | Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid |
| 26% | ALEC | 4 | Name that anagrams to the name of a fabric |
| 25% | TOWN | 4 | Word that can follow Hades or Urine to make the title of a musical |
| 25% | LOVE | 4 | “A smoke made with the fume of sighs,” according to Romeo |
| 25% | EMIL | 4 | Name that anagrams to the name of a citrus fruit |
| 25% | FAIREST | 7 | Like Aphrodite, according to the Judgment of Paris |
| 25% | LEGAL | 5 | Boston ___, law drama that made a reference to the Lillian Corporation from "Cheers" in the episode "Deep End of the Poole" |
| 25% | SUFFIX | 6 | Morpheme added to the end of a word, like "itis" |