| 100% | WHATSUPDOC | 10 | Classic Looney Tunes tagline offering some "direction" in solving the starred clues |
| 34% | SPLIT | 5 | Small wine bottle, and a hint to solving the starred clues |
| 33% | ASNECESSARY | 11 | When required ... or a terse hint to solving the starred clues |
| 31% | WHATSTHEIRMO | 12 | "How do these people pull that off?" (and a hint to solving the starred clues) |
| 31% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Hint to solving the eight starred clues |
| 31% | SPEECHTOTEXT | 12 | Technology used in writing the starred clues? |
| 31% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 30% | WEAPONS | 7 | Some cards in the board game Clue |
| 29% | PUDDYTAT | 8 | Sighting in a classic Looney Tunes cartoon |
| 28% | BESTMUSICAL | 11 | Tony Award won by the starred answers in the years of their clues |
| 28% | PODRACE | 7 | Contest like the Boonta Eve Classic, in Star Wars |
| 28% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 28% | ANVIL | 5 | Heavy item falling from the sky in some classic cartoons |
| 28% | DIGIT | 5 | What each number in the starred clues represents |
| 27% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 27% | DROPIT | 6 | "That'll be enough of that subject" ... and a hint to solving the answers to starred clues |
| 27% | SAMESEXCOUPLES | 14 | Some partners, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 26% | BOND | 4 | What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
| 26% | CHEERYOS | 8 | Theme of the starred clues' answers |
| 25% | TOMCRUISE | 9 | "Mission Impossible" star who turned down the lead role in the classic film "Footloose": 2 wds. |
| 25% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 25% | YIDDISH | 7 | Language that the starred clues' answers come from |
| 25% | FIVEWS | 6 | Homonym theme of the starred clue's answers |
| 25% | WEST | 4 | Direction in which the sun sets |
| 25% | EAST | 4 | Direction in which the sun rises |
| 24% | PIGOUT | 6 | Ingurgitate, and a hint to making sense of the starred clues |
| 24% | AVA | 3 | Classic film star Gardner portrayed by Kate Beckinsale in "The Aviator" |
| 24% | ASTA | 4 | Aid in solving the disappearance of the Thin Man |
| 24% | ONES | 4 | Bills that may prove helpful in solving the contest |
| 24% | FORTIES | 7 | Decade in which the Slinky debuted ... and a phonetic hint to the answers to starred clues |