| 100% | INBED | 5 | How breakfast may be served ... or how the answers to the eight starred clues should be entered? |
| 57% | NEAT | 4 | How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 52% | ALITTLE | 7 | With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed |
| 51% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 50% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 50% | SHOWDOWNS | 9 | Decisive confrontations ... or what the answers to the six starred clues are? |
| 49% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 49% | BAR | 3 | Judging by their names, where the answers to the four starred clues might be found? |
| 48% | FAMILYGAMENIGHT | 15 | Evening with the kids, or when the ends of the answers to starred clues might be played |
| 48% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 48% | SHORTTERM | 9 | Temporary ... and how both ends of the answers to starred clues might be described |
| 48% | SHREDDEDWHEAT | 13 | Breakfast cereal ... or a hint to what's found in the answers to the four starred clues? |
| 47% | BACKWARD | 8 | How the answers to the italicized clues must be entered into this puzzle |
| 47% | OUTOFSORTS | 10 | Irritable ... or how you might describe all the words in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 47% | KEEPMEPOSTED | 12 | "I want to stay informed!," or what might be said by the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | ENDSUPONTOP | 11 | Prevails eventually … or a hint to entering the answers to the six starred clues in this puzzle |
| 47% | THEHUNGERGAMES | 14 | Dystopian novel/film series … or what the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 46% | IMOUT | 5 | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| 46% | BORNLOSERS | 10 | Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially? |
| 46% | AHEADOFSCHEDULE | 15 | Early ... or where the answers to the starred clues' ending words can be found |
| 46% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 46% | CHRISTIANROCK | 13 | Bible camp genre, or what the answers to the starred clues could be mistaken for? |
| 46% | SUPERFOOD | 9 | Marketing term for nutrient-rich fare, or what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 46% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 46% | AWORKINPROGRESS | 15 | Unfinished project ... or, literally, what the answers to the eight starred clues contain? |
| 46% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 45% | BACKTOBACK | 10 | How TV episodes are binge-watched ... or how to turn each word in the answers to the starred clues into a new phrase |
| 45% | WHATARETHEODDS | 14 | "How lucky was that?" ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |