| 100% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 53% | SANSA | 5 | Winterfell character on "Game of Thrones" ... or, if you change the fourth letter to T, a wintertime character |
| 50% | SNORT | 5 | Pig's sound, or a pig's body part if you change the fourth letter to a U |
| 42% | WRISTS | 6 | Body parts that become other body parts if you change the second letter to an A |
| 41% | ALBEN | 5 | Truman veep Barkley whose name sounds like a musical record if you change the last letter to an "m" |
| 41% | FRUIT | 5 | What you get if you change the first letter in "demon," "dime" or "drape"? |
| 38% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 38% | NIGEL | 5 | Man's name that's an African country if you change the last letter |
| 36% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 36% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 36% | EMENDS | 6 | Synonym for “alters” that keeps its meaning if the first letter is changed to an “A” |
| 36% | STOOP | 5 | Bend to go through a doorway, say ... or what may be in front of the door |
| 35% | YEA | 3 | Positive vote that would be a unit of time if you added an R to the end |
| 35% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 35% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 35% | HEARINGDOGS | 11 | Certain assistance animals ... or what you might be doing when you say the pairs of shaded words out loud? |
| 35% | IMMORAL | 7 | What some consider you to be for not adhering to the laws of the Torah or Quran |
| 35% | GETONBOARD | 10 | "Join the team," or what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 34% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 34% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | CALENDARREFORM | 14 | The change from Julian to Gregorian ... or what would be needed to make 20-, 31- and 40-Across possible? |
| 34% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive an audition, and what one may do to the start of 18-, 23-, 36-, or 54-Across? |
| 34% | TANTALUM | 8 | What the center of Kazakhstan's bimetallic 500-tenge coin was made of, up to 2014 |
| 33% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 33% | RINSECYCLE | 10 | Part of washing ... or what's exhibited by the circled letters from top to bottom |
| 33% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 33% | DELTA | 5 | Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, or an airline |
| 33% | DORM | 4 | What you might be rushed to get out of? |