| 100% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 93% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 74% | INNERGODDESS | 12 | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| 68% | TRUCKDRIVER | 11 | What each of the answers to the starred clues once was |
| 67% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 66% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 65% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | OOHS | 4 | Cries of delight, and what each of the answers to the starred clues literally are? |
| 65% | DOWNFEATHERS | 12 | Warm winter coat contents ... or what is present in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 65% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 65% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 64% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 63% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 63% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 63% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 63% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 62% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 62% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 62% | DEADEND | 7 | Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 62% | THISISPOINTLESS | 15 | “Why even bother?” . . . or what can be said of the answer to each starred clue |
| 62% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 62% | WHITEMATTER | 11 | Certain brain tissue, or what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| 62% | MATE | 4 | Aussie pal, or what can follow each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 62% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 62% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 62% | RUNNINGMATE | 11 | Vice presidential hopeful, and what the first part of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| 61% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 61% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 61% | OUTANDOUT | 9 | Complete, or what can follow both parts of the answers to the starred clues |