| 100% | KANGAROOWORD | 12 | Honorable (which contains the letters of "noble" in order), for example |
| 48% | ABC | 3 | Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 45% | ACCIDENT | 8 | The discovery of penicillin in 1928, for example |
| 42% | AMID | 4 | In the middle of a crowd, for example |
| 40% | LOAD | 4 | Put in the trunk of a car, for example |
| 39% | EYE | 3 | Either of the circled letters in 4-Across, for this puzzle's face |
| 39% | LCDS | 4 | Letters that fill in the blanks of "digita_ _lock rea_outs, for _hort" |
| 39% | SECT | 4 | Pastafarianism or The Temple of the Jedi Order, for example |
| 38% | NATIONAL | 8 | What one of the letters in 29-Across stands for |
| 38% | ENERGY | 6 | What one of the letters in E = mc2 stands for |
| 38% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 38% | OGRE | 4 | Mulgarath, the master of the goblins in "The Spiderwick Chronicles", for example |
| 38% | DETOURS | 7 | Routes that contain the letters in "routes" |
| 38% | GNP | 3 | Fig. which was about $19.5 trillion for the USA in the fourth quarter of 2019 |
| 37% | TERRIERMIX | 10 | Hybrid dog breed, literal examples of which can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | COLORS | 6 | What the letters of "Roy G. Biv" stand for |
| 37% | COLORS | 6 | What the letters of ROY G. BIV stand for |
| 36% | CASHMERE | 8 | Kind of expensive wool, the word for which comes from the Sanskrit word "Kashmir," a place in the Himalayas |
| 36% | VINCENTIO | 9 | The Duke of Vienna in Measure for Measure |
| 36% | ALPHABET | 8 | All the letters arranged in order |
| 36% | ANNE | 4 | Name which in the UK was for royalty whereas the same name, but with one less letter, was for commoners |
| 36% | DEFAT | 5 | Get rid of the oil in cooking, for example |
| 36% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in London |
| 36% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in England |
| 36% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in Canada |
| 36% | ZED | 3 | Final letter of the alphabet, in Britain |
| 35% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 35% | RSV | 3 | The English translation of the Bible which was published in 1952, for short |
| 35% | PAGE | 4 | The front of a newspaper, for example |
| 35% | LOGO | 4 | The domino of Domino's, for example |