| 100% | SMOOT | 5 | Early 20th-century senator Reed who becomes pointless to debate if you remove the first letter? |
| 36% | RAMI | 4 | Name that becomes another name if you move the first letter to the end |
| 35% | TWEEZERS | 8 | Tool whose name is a rock band if you remove the first and last letters |
| 34% | ENOS | 4 | Biblical man's name that becomes a body part if you move the first letter to the end |
| 34% | EMIL | 4 | Man's name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end |
| 34% | AVIS | 4 | Company name that becomes another company name if you move its first letter to the end |
| 34% | AVIS | 4 | Commercial name that becomes another commercial name if you move its first letter to the end |
| 34% | ERIC | 4 | Name that becomes a grain if you move its first letter to the end |
| 33% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | ALAN | 4 | Boy's name that becomes a girl's name if you move the first letter to the end |
| 32% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a popular toy brand if you move the first letter to the end |
| 32% | OPAL | 4 | Gemstone that becomes a buddy if you remove its first letter |
| 31% | IHOP | 4 | Commercial name that becomes a Native American tribe if you move its first letter to the end |
| 30% | SLY | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to WI |
| 30% | SLY | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to "WI" |
| 29% | TSARS | 5 | Royalty who, when you switch the first two letters around, become Hollywood royalty |
| 29% | EROS | 4 | Love symbol that names another love symbol if you move the first letter to the end |
| 29% | WRISTS | 6 | Body parts that become other body parts if you change the second letter to an A |
| 29% | FINCH | 5 | Bird whose name becomes a unit of length if you remove its first letter |
| 28% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 28% | AYE | 3 | Word that keeps the same meaning if you move its first letter to the end |
| 27% | FRUIT | 5 | What you get if you change the first letter in "demon," "dime" or "drape"? |
| 27% | ABLE | 4 | Monkey who became the first to return to Earth successfully in 1959 |
| 26% | ARES | 4 | God who becomes the sign of the Ram if you add an I |
| 26% | LAIKA | 5 | Dog who became the first living being to orbit the Earth in 1957 |
| 26% | VALENTINA | 9 | ___ Tereshkova, cosmonaut who became the first woman to fly in space in 1964 |
| 26% | LATTE | 5 | Word that, if you double it and mix up the letters, becomes 64-Across |
| 26% | GRAIN | 5 | Word that, if you double it and mix up the letters, becomes 17-Across |
| 26% | STEIN | 5 | Word that, if you double it and mix up the letters, becomes 11-Down |
| 26% | NEONS | 5 | Word that, if you double it and mix up the letters, becomes 30-Down |