| 100% | WINDSPEED | 9 | How fast a gust or a breeze is blowing |
| 52% | WINDSPEED | 9 | How fast the breeze is blowing |
| 44% | WINDSPEED | 9 | How quickly the breeze is blowing |
| 44% | TEMPO | 5 | How fast a song is sung |
| 41% | SPEED | 5 | How fast or slow a vehicle travels |
| 41% | QUOTATION | 9 | Estimate of how much a good or service will cost |
| 39% | TOOFAR | 6 | How a practical joke or a subway train may be taken |
| 38% | RAN | 3 | Was fast (as a person) or wasn't fast (as dye) |
| 38% | LOOSELY | 7 | How a blown-open door may have been closed |
| 38% | ITGOESUPANDDOWN | 15 | How life is like the ocean, or a hint to entering the starred answers |
| 36% | LAT | 3 | Longitude's counterpart that indicates how far north or south a place is: Abbr. |
| 35% | ABSENTEES | 9 | Educators' concerns ... or, a phonetic hint to how four long puzzle answers were derived |
| 35% | BLOWBYBLOW | 10 | Like a detailed account . . . or how 17-, 19-, 35-, and 53-Across are created |
| 35% | EST | 3 | How much a mechanic thinks a job will cost: Abbr. |
| 34% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 34% | RUNNER | 6 | A bean or a very fast person |
| 34% | WIND | 4 | Gust or breeze |
| 34% | ALITTLE | 7 | With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed |
| 34% | TASK | 4 | A chore or a job to be done |
| 34% | PET | 3 | A cat or a dog might be one |
| 34% | FRAMED | 6 | A photo or picture that is behind glass |
| 33% | DOLLARSANDCENTS | 15 | Money ... or a hint to how six crossings in this puzzle are to be represented, superimposing one letter over another |
| 33% | HEART | 5 | "I'm a pumping organ that might beat faster when you're excited or scared. Who am I?" |
| 33% | AMEND | 5 | Add to a bill or a will |
| 33% | AMEND | 5 | Change, as a bill or a will |
| 33% | TAILWIND | 8 | A breeze blowing from behind |
| 33% | SPEED | 5 | How fast something is moving |
| 33% | ONALEAD | 7 | How a dog is walked |
| 33% | NOBLY | 5 | How a prince is born |
| 33% | FROMONHEINIE | 12 | How a diaper is removed? |