| 100% | FOLLOWTHELEADER | 15 | How to find what a creep is looking at? |
| 51% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | What is said to be found at the end of a rainbow |
| 47% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | STUDS | 5 | What a certain tool is designed to find |
| 46% | WILDFLOWERS | 11 | Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | COUNTTHESQUARES | 15 | How to find out what "this many" is in 17-, 21-, 52- and 57-Across |
| 45% | QUESTIONTHEDUCK | 15 | Try to find out what's what at a pond? |
| 44% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 42% | SADDAY | 6 | What dropping off a last child at college is, to many parents |
| 40% | AAR | 3 | De-briefing process used by the military to find out what, why and how about a particular event (abbr.) |
| 40% | UPTHEANTE | 9 | Increase what is at stake ... or a hint to answering 20-, 30- and 46-Across |
| 39% | DRYEYES | 7 | They may be hard to find at a tearjerker |
| 39% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | DISTRACTION | 11 | What a rubbernecker looks at |
| 39% | MIRROR | 6 | Glass object that is often used to figure out how one is looking at a particular moment |
| 39% | TVSET | 5 | What a couch potato looks at: 2 wds. |
| 39% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 39% | ANIMALSHELTER | 13 | Place to adopt a new pet, or what is found in 17-, 24-, 49-, and 59-Across? |
| 39% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 39% | PROTEINSHAKE | 12 | Post-workout nourishment, and a hint to what can be found in each set of circled letters |
| 39% | EASE | 4 | What a relaxed soldier is at |
| 39% | HPOST | 5 | What a gate is hinged to |
| 39% | MAST | 4 | What a sail is attached to |
| 39% | MAST | 4 | What a sail is tied to |
| 39% | HOOF | 4 | What a horseshoe is attached to |
| 39% | EASE | 4 | What a soldier may be at? |
| 39% | RIDER | 5 | What a hitchhiker aspires to be |
| 39% | RODENT | 6 | What a rabbit used to be |
| 38% | TAILINGOFF | 10 | Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle |
| 38% | ORE | 3 | What a gold digger is looking for |