| 100% | BETTER | 6 | For "this" or worse |
| 89% | SUCHASITIS | 10 | For better or worse |
| 89% | PER | 3 | For this or that |
| 79% | BETTER | 6 | "For ___ or for worse..." |
| 77% | REP | 3 | Good name, or bad, for short |
| 77% | REP | 3 | Good or bad name, for short |
| 75% | RAMSHACKLE | 10 | Badly made or cared for |
| 75% | CASTONESLOTWITH | 15 | Join, for better or worse |
| 73% | ELLY | 4 | "For Better or for Worse" matriarch |
| 73% | ELLY | 4 | "For Better or for Worse" mom |
| 72% | LYNN | 4 | "For Better or for Worse" cartoonist Johnston |
| 71% | ASS | 3 | Emphatic suffix for bad or good |
| 71% | LYNNJOHNSTON | 12 | "For Better or For Worse" cartoonist: 2 wds. |
| 70% | WED | 3 | Take "for better or for worse" |
| 70% | ETYMOLOGY | 9 | Old English, for better or worse? |
| 70% | GUTTER | 6 | Bad place for a bowling ball or the mind |
| 70% | EST | 3 | Suffix for the best or the worst |
| 69% | MIXTAPE | 7 | This-and-that recording for a friend or a party |
| 67% | WED | 3 | Take for better or for worse, say |
| 67% | ELLY | 4 | Mom in "For Better or for Worse" |
| 66% | FLIPSIDES | 9 | Opposites … or instructions for answering this puzzle's starred clues |
| 66% | PAN | 3 | Film technique - or a bad thing for it to get? |
| 66% | ALLERGIC | 8 | Having a bad reaction to shellfish or pollen, for example |
| 65% | DRINKSONME | 10 | "I'm paying for this round" … or a literal hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 65% | ENG | 3 | Language for this clue, for short or word with "land" to make London's country |
| 64% | NINEHOLES | 9 | Quick outing for Tiger Woods ... or what this completed puzzle contains |
| 63% | IDOS | 4 | Vows made "for better or worse" |
| 62% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 62% | WERETOAST | 9 | "This looks bad for us!" |
| 62% | IMTOAST | 7 | "This looks bad for me!" |