| 100% | MAKEENDSMEET | 12 | Get by ... or what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 77% | CUTTHECARBS | 11 | Dieting advice, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 76% | BREAKASTORY | 11 | What an investigative journalist might do, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 76% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 76% | CUTTHECARDS | 11 | Prepare a deck before dealing, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 75% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 74% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 74% | GODOWNIN | 8 | With 47-Down, fail spectacularly ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 74% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 73% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 73% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 72% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 71% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |
| 69% | SPELLITOUT | 10 | Leave no room for misinterpretation ... or what the first words of the answers to the five starred clues do, literally |
| 69% | PARTYINTHEBACK | 14 | Mullet's defining feature, in a common saying ... or, literally, what the answers to the starred clues have in common? |
| 69% | AUTOCOMPLETE | 12 | Search engine feature ... or what you literally need to do to answer the six starred clues |
| 69% | BREAK | 5 | With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the circled squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues |
| 69% | AWORKINPROGRESS | 15 | Unfinished project ... or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain? |
| 68% | TOPS | 4 | With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have |
| 67% | UPSTARTS | 8 | Social climbers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have |
| 67% | TREEHUGGERS | 11 | Nature lovers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 67% | TIMESLOT | 8 | Schedule component, and what the answers to the starred clues literally contain |
| 67% | FULLOFBEANS | 11 | Completely wrong, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are? |
| 67% | BEARHUGS | 8 | Tight embraces, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? |
| 67% | CHEESEFILLING | 13 | Ravioli option, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? |
| 67% | FILLEDWITHJOY | 13 | Feeling euphoric, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 67% | DRESSINGDOWN | 12 | Severe scolding, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? |
| 67% | EYEOPENERS | 10 | Startling revelations, or what the answers to the starred clues have, phonetically |
| 66% | ANIMALRIGHTS | 12 | Anti-cruelty movement, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have |
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