| 100% | ENDGAME | 7 | Concluding stage of a chess match ... or a feature of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 65% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 63% | TIPTOPSHAPE | 11 | Exceptional physical health, and a feature of the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 62% | AANDW | 5 | Classic root beer brand ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 62% | FIVESECONDRULE | 14 | Dubious food-eating guideline … or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 61% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 61% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 60% | FRUITLESS | 9 | Unproductive ... or, literally, a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 57% | FISHTAIL | 8 | Swerve back and forth, as a car's rear end, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue |
| 57% | SOUNDMIXING | 11 | Audio technique, or a feature of the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | EARLYBIRD | 9 | Morning person, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 57% | CIRCLESBACK | 11 | Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 56% | SPACETRAVEL | 11 | Voyage by rocket … or a feature of the answers to the 12 starred clues? |
| 55% | HONEYIMHOME | 11 | Cry after navigating the last parts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 55% | FIVERS | 6 | Fins, or when parsed differently, a feature of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Gamble boldly, in a way … or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's italicized clues |
| 55% | TIMEAFTERTIME | 13 | Repeatedly ... and a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 54% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Saying about compatible partners … as suggested by the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 54% | SETIN | 5 | With 59-Down, permanent ... or, literally, a feature of the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 54% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | 3-2 ... or what's represented by the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 54% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 54% | TURNTURNTURN | 12 | #1 hit by the Byrds ... or directions for reading the answers to this puzzle's starred clues (always clockwise as indicated) |
| 53% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 53% | REDSHIFTED | 10 | Like light from stars moving away from us ... or like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 53% | ENDGAME | 7 | Last stage of a chess match, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| 53% | LATERALSYMMETRY | 15 | Feature of this puzzle's grid and the answers to the six starred clues |
| 53% | EPICENTER | 9 | Quake's origin, and a feature of the answers to starred clues |
| 53% | REVENGEISADISH | 14 | With 11-Down, proverb about delayed retribution, with a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 52% | PISAITALY | 9 | Home to this puzzle's featured structure, as hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Blackjack player's option ... or a description of the answers to the starred clues? |