| 100% | THREESOMES | 10 | Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones |
| 55% | THE | 3 | With 71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it |
| 54% | TAILLIGHT | 9 | Rear warning lamp, and what can go with the end of each answer to a starred clue |
| 53% | DOWNPAYMENT | 11 | Typical mortgage requirement, and what ends each answer to a starred clue |
| 53% | WILDCOUNTRY | 11 | Remote region ... and what literally ends each answer to a starred clue |
| 52% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 51% | ENDSINATIE | 10 | Concludes with no clear winner ... and what each answer to a starred clue does? |
| 50% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 49% | ROOM | 4 | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |
| 48% | STUFFEDCLAM | 11 | Seafood appetizer, and what each answer to a starred clue literally is? |
| 48% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantageous position, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| 48% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 48% | CLASSACTION | 11 | Group lawsuit ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 48% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Familiar slogan ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 48% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 47% | OILCHANGE | 9 | Basic auto maintenance, and how each answer to a starred clue was created |
| 47% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 46% | PIECEOFCAKE | 11 | Simple thing to do ... and what each starred clue's answer ends with? |
| 46% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 46% | BEE | 3 | Creature found atop the apt part of each answer to a starred clue |
| 46% | NOENTRY | 7 | "Keep out!" sign ... or, in three parts, each answer to a starred clue |
| 45% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 45% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 45% | FISHHEAD | 8 | Ingredient in some Asian soup, or, literally, what each answer to a starred clue has |
| 45% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Familiar slogan ... or, based on its last word, what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 45% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1978 misfit comedy ... and something hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 44% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 44% | FIREANDRAIN | 11 | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| 44% | WORKOUTINTHEEND | 15 | Come to a satisfying conclusion, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 44% | GIVEITAREST | 11 | "Enough already!" or what one may do to each answer to a starred clue |