| 100% | PLED | 4 | Gave a "guilty" or "not guilty" answer to the judge |
| 63% | PLEA | 4 | "Guilty" or "not guilty," to a judge |
| 62% | TEASEUP | 7 | Give height, as a hairdo ... or a hint for entering the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | ALITTLE | 7 | With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed |
| 59% | HANGINTHERE | 11 | "Don't give up yet!" ... or a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 58% | VERDICT | 7 | The guilty or not guilty decision by a jury |
| 54% | CUTTHEBS | 8 | "Give it to me straight" ... or, when reparsed, a hint to some chopping in the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | AJAR | 4 | Answer to the riddle "When is a door not a door? When it's ___" |
| 53% | OMEN | 4 | Sign ... or a description of the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 53% | BTEAM | 5 | Subs ... or a feature of the answers to the 17 asterisked clues? |
| 53% | TRIPLETIME | 10 | Minuet meter ... or a description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | ENTAILS | 7 | Involves, or a phonetic feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | SOUNDMIXING | 11 | Audio technique, or a feature of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | SKIPSCHOOL | 10 | Emulate Ferris Bueller ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | GREENEGGSANDHAM | 15 | Dr. Seuss book ... or a description of the answers to the three starred clues |
| 52% | DOUBLEDOWN | 10 | Blackjack player's option ... or a description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 52% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 52% | SOANDSO | 7 | Name better left unsaid, or a description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | SPACETRAVEL | 11 | Voyage by rocket … or a feature of the answers to the 12 starred clues? |
| 52% | FIVERS | 6 | Fins, or when parsed differently, a feature of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | CAGEY | 5 | Kinda guarded, or a homophonic hint to the starred answers |
| 51% | TWOCANPLAY | 10 | With 28-Down, words to a cheater ... or an honest hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 51% | ISLANDHOPPING | 13 | Yachter's itinerary, maybe ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | TIMEISMONEY | 11 | Benjamin Franklin adage ... or a hint to interpreting the answers to the four starred clues |
| 51% | READALOUD | 9 | *Woodwind permitted, say ... or a hint to sounding out the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | HIDDENGEM | 9 | Diamond in the rough ... or a literal feature of each answer to a starred clue |
| 51% | III | 3 | The third ... or a hint to the rhyming ends of every Across answer |
| 51% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | EVERYTHINGSOK | 13 | "It's all good," or a hint to the starred answers |
| 51% | BOOKEND | 7 | Shelf prop ... or a hint to both parts of the answers to the six starred clues |