| 100% | SHORTI | 6 | It's at the beginning of this clue |
| 73% | CAPITALI | 8 | It's found at the start of this clue |
| 61% | VOWEL | 5 | There's one at the end of this clue |
| 60% | SOFTC | 5 | It’s heard at the beginning of “Cecilia” |
| 59% | CONSONANT | 9 | The beginning of every clue in this puzzle |
| 57% | OHM | 3 | Physics unit whose name is pronounced at the beginning of its representative Greek letter |
| 56% | ARTICLE | 7 | What is found at the heart of this clue |
| 55% | FALSESTARTS | 11 | Track meet infractions ... or short words hiding at the beginning of the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | SIGMA | 5 | It's at the end of "Oedipus" |
| 55% | ESS | 3 | It’s near the end of August and at the beginning of September |
| 54% | OPEC | 4 | Qatar left it at the beginning of the year |
| 54% | EURO | 4 | It appeared in Europe at the beginning of 2002 |
| 54% | PAGEONE | 7 | It's just the beginning of the story |
| 54% | BAITFISH | 8 | It's at the end of the line |
| 54% | LURE | 4 | It's at the end of the line |
| 54% | FLY | 3 | It's at the end of the line |
| 54% | FISHHOOK | 8 | It's at the end of the line |
| 54% | XII | 3 | It's at the top of a face |
| 54% | ACROSS | 6 | It's at the top of some columns |
| 54% | XII | 3 | It's at the top of some clocks |
| 54% | NAIL | 4 | It's at the tip of your finger |
| 53% | OMAN | 4 | It's at the mouth of the Persian Gulf |
| 53% | TAP | 3 | Dance at the beginning of Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" video |
| 52% | TRES | 4 | "Uno, dos, ___, catorce!" (words shouted at the beginning of U2's "Vertigo") |
| 52% | SIOUXCITY | 9 | It's at the junction of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota |
| 52% | IRAN | 4 | It's at the southern end of the Caspian Sea |
| 52% | APSE | 4 | It's at the east end of Notre Dame de Paris |
| 51% | ALTAR | 5 | Pergamon ___ (structure described at the beginning of Peter Weiss’s “The Aesthetics of Resistance”) |
| 51% | DIVERSGOAL | 10 | This clue's 110-Across, at the Olympics |
| 51% | LURE | 4 | It’s at the end of the line |