| 100% | UNDERAFALSENAME | 15 | How a rock star might check in to a hotel |
| 45% | LOBBY | 5 | Where a hotel guest might check in |
| 42% | SON | 3 | One whose parents might need the baby products heard in the starred answers (he'll learn how to spell them when he's a bit older) |
| 42% | INSONG | 6 | How a Broadway star might break out |
| 41% | HOTANDCOLD | 10 | How emotions may blow, and a hint to the switches in the theme answers |
| 41% | ETA | 3 | What a clock checker might want to know, in brief |
| 41% | EGO | 3 | A rock star may have an inflated one |
| 40% | NEAT | 4 | How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 39% | TAXICAB | 7 | It might take you from an airport to a hotel |
| 38% | KNOT | 4 | A Boy Scout might learn how to tie one |
| 38% | DIT | 3 | How a dot may be vocalized in Morse code |
| 38% | OUTOFSORTS | 10 | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 38% | SIDETOSIDE | 10 | How a boat may rock |
| 38% | LATE | 4 | How one may "fashionably" arrive to a party |
| 37% | COT | 3 | Bed that might be added to a hotel room for an extra guest |
| 37% | AGEGAP | 6 | A big one may be hard to overcome in a relationship |
| 37% | POP | 3 | How a Minnesota-based friend might refer to soda |
| 37% | TVROLE | 6 | What a movie star may pretend to be above |
| 37% | GPS | 3 | It may be attached to a windshield, in brief |
| 37% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 37% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 37% | GALS | 4 | How a cowboy might refer to women |
| 37% | ODE | 3 | "___ to Prince" (poem honoring a rock star by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib) |
| 37% | TOTASTE | 7 | How salt and pepper may be added, in a recipe |
| 37% | AMEN | 4 | How a congregation might respond to a pastor |
| 37% | BUNK | 4 | How a cowboy might refer to a bed |
| 37% | QUEASILY | 8 | How a stomach might react to strange food |
| 37% | RATES | 5 | Assigns stars to, as a hotel |
| 36% | THRESHOLD | 9 | Way in to a home, over which brides may be carried |
| 36% | WARTSANDALL | 11 | How one might be forced to accept a witch? |