| 100% | WRONG | 5 | Like a test answer with an "x" next to it |
| 45% | REST | 4 | Stick with an X-shaped head used to support a snooker cue |
| 45% | YESNO | 5 | Like a question with only an affirmative or negative answer |
| 44% | BROKEN | 6 | With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt description of each answer to a starred clue |
| 44% | CLUE | 4 | It leads to an answer in a crossword |
| 43% | WORMY | 5 | Like an apple with a hole in it, perhaps |
| 43% | BSHARP | 6 | Note that sounds like an order to get with it? |
| 42% | INACAST | 7 | Like an arm with a fracture that needs to heal: 3 wds. |
| 41% | THE | 3 | With 71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it |
| 40% | DEW | 3 | It "shines with a mournful light, like its own tear," in an Andrew Marvell poem |
| 40% | HANGINTHERE | 11 | "Stick with it!" … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 40% | TRUE | 4 | Test answer with a 50-50 chance |
| 40% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 39% | WELLREGRADED | 12 | Like a test with a properly corrected score? |
| 39% | BURIED | 6 | __ treasure, it's marked with an X on a map |
| 39% | TRUE | 4 | Test answer with a 50% chance of being right |
| 39% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 39% | RELAY | 5 | Sport with a baton where a runner races to pass it to the next running player |
| 38% | AIRY | 4 | Like a room with a fresh breeze blowing through it |
| 38% | SCREEN | 6 | With 45-Down, displays during an online presentation ... or a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | DIGITALDIVIDE | 13 | It separates those with access to technology and those without, and a feature of four answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | ALONGSIDE | 9 | Next to, in a line with |
| 38% | OVER | 4 | Like a relationship with an ex |
| 38% | EAVED | 5 | Like a roof with an overhang |
| 38% | CAPITAL | 7 | With 31-Down, proceeds from the sale of an asset … or a hint to understanding six answers in this puzzle |
| 38% | RSVPS | 5 | Gets back to a host with an answer, informally |
| 38% | UTILITY | 7 | * You've landed a ___ property like Electric Company or Water Works (Move to 38d for the next answer) |
| 38% | COASTAL | 7 | Like a town next to the sea |
| 38% | WORSE | 5 | Like a B+, compared to an A- |
| 38% | ONEWAY | 6 | Like a street with an arrow sign |