| 100% | LINKED | 6 | Like pairs of crossword answers whose clues cross-reference each other |
| 35% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 34% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 33% | HOLISTICDIET | 12 | Component of balanced health ... and what each answer to a starred clue looks like it should be part of? |
| 32% | EVENLYMATCHED | 13 | Comparable in skill, like each symmetrical pair of answers with circles? |
| 31% | LAYERCAKE | 9 | *Dessert literally represented in six pairs of answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | BREAKALEG | 9 | What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues |
| 30% | OPERA | 5 | Each of this puzzle's long Across answers sounds like one |
| 30% | KEEPSANOPENMIND | 15 | What each of the other four longest answers does |
| 30% | MERITBADGE | 10 | What each of the other nine long answers is |
| 30% | DOUBLEBOND | 10 | Chemical link with two pairs of shared electrons, or what each starred answer forms |
| 30% | SYMBIOTIC | 9 | Mutually beneficial … or a hint to three pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |
| 30% | HOT | 3 | Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 30% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 29% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 29% | ROOM | 4 | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |
| 29% | HOMOPHONE | 9 | Feature of each entry's clue or answer (except this one) |
| 29% | ACRONYM | 7 | Basis of the answer to each starred clue, commonly |
| 28% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 28% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 28% | BEE | 3 | Creature found atop the apt part of each answer to a starred clue |
| 28% | THE | 3 | With 71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it |
| 28% | FILM | 4 | What each completed pair of theme answers in this puzzle is |
| 28% | MIDDLEOFTHEROAD | 15 | Not extreme, like the answers whose clues start with asterisks |
| 28% | DUELIST | 7 | One of a pair of drawers facing each other? |
| 28% | CLUBSANDWICH | 12 | Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? |
| 28% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 28% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ___ or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 28% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 28% | COPYRIGHT | 9 | Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |