| 100% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 62% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantage ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 61% | FRUITTOPPING | 12 | Dessert add-on ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 61% | ASHOTIN | 7 | With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 60% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 58% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 56% | ERS | 3 | Hosp. parts ... or what the answers to the six starred clues each have twice |
| 56% | TWISTOFFATE | 11 | Unexpected development ... or what the answer to each starred clue contains? |
| 56% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 55% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 55% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 54% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | Home plate ump's concern ... or what the answer to each starred clue can be? |
| 54% | INNER | 5 | With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 54% | CREATUREFEATURE | 15 | Monster movie, and what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 54% | SHOWSTOPPER | 11 | Dazzling theater performance, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 53% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 53% | FIRESTARTER | 11 | 1980 Stephen King novel, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? |
| 53% | COPYRIGHT | 9 | Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 53% | GLOWUP | 6 | Positive personal transformation, in slang, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? |
| 53% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 53% | FEMALELEAD | 10 | Feature of "Alien," "Mulan" or "Clueless" … or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 52% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 51% | NEITHERNOR | 10 | *Irrelevant ... or what the answers to the five starred clues have? |
| 51% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 51% | MAKEENDSMEET | 12 | Get by ... or what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 51% | EYEOPENERS | 10 | Startling revelations, or what the answers to the starred clues have, phonetically |
| 50% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 50% | GODOWNIN | 8 | With 47-Down, fail spectacularly ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 50% | POKERHAND | 9 | What the answer to each starred clue is |
| 50% | OXTAILS | 7 | Animal parts used for stews, or what the answers to the starred clues all have |