| 100% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 61% | DOWNFEATHERS | 12 | Warm winter coat contents ... or what is present in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 58% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 57% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 54% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 54% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | Home plate ump's concern ... or what the answer to each starred clue can be? |
| 53% | ROOMFORDESSERT | 14 | Question from a server, or what was needed to create the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | STUFFIT | 7 | "Shut up already!" ... or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 52% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 52% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |
| 52% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 50% | OPENHOUSE | 9 | Realtor's big day ... or what each word in the answers to the starred clues can do |
| 49% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantage ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 48% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 48% | TWISTOFFATE | 11 | Unexpected development ... or what the answer to each starred clue contains? |
| 48% | FRUITTOPPING | 12 | Dessert add-on ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 48% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 48% | UNCOUPLES | 9 | Disconnects … or what's found in the answers to the four starred clues? |
| 48% | WENTSOFT | 8 | Grew sentimental, or what the vowels did in answers to the paired clues |
| 48% | BLUE | 4 | Navy, e.g., or what the starred answers can be, in various ways |
| 48% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 47% | INNERGODDESS | 12 | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues? |
| 47% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues |
| 47% | ERS | 3 | Hosp. parts ... or what the answers to the six starred clues each have twice |
| 47% | GIVEITAREST | 11 | "Enough already!" or what one may do to each answer to a starred clue |