| 100% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 56% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 53% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 52% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 49% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 49% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 48% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 47% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 46% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 46% | BREAKALEG | 9 | What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues |
| 46% | 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% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 45% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 45% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 45% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 45% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 45% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 44% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 44% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 44% | 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 |
| 42% | CUTTHECARDS | 11 | Prepare a deck before dealing, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 42% | CUTTHECARBS | 11 | Dieting advice, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 42% | CANIBUYAVOWEL | 13 | What you might cry when trying to answer the six starred clues? |
| 42% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 42% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 42% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 42% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 42% | BROKENBONES | 11 | *Orthopedist's concerns ... and what you'll find in two parts in the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |