| 100% | SPELT | 5 | Like this clue's answer, in five letters |
| 61% | DOWN | 4 | Like this clue's answer |
| 60% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 60% | ACROSS | 6 | Like this clue's answer, direction-wise |
| 58% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 57% | CROSSDRESSING | 13 | "Mrs. Doubtfire" plot device - or what the letters in this clue's answer do five times? |
| 57% | END | 3 | Like this clue's position in the crossword |
| 57% | OVAL | 4 | Shaped like this answer's first letter (in some typefaces) |
| 57% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of letters in this answer |
| 56% | CHANGEOFHEART | 13 | Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 55% | MAILBAG | 7 | This clue's answer might contain more than seven letters |
| 55% | PASTTENSE | 9 | Like either word in the answers to the five starred clues |
| 54% | ALLLOWERCASE | 12 | like the letters in this clue |
| 54% | DOTTED | 6 | Like three letters in this clue |
| 54% | TWISTOFLEMON | 12 | Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 54% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 54% | CAPITAL | 7 | LIKE EVERY LETTER IN THIS CLUE |
| 53% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 53% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 52% | OVAL | 4 | Shaped like this answer's first letter, say |
| 52% | EDGY | 4 | Provocative … like this answer's position in the grid? |
| 52% | LOWERCASE | 9 | like all the letters in this clue |
| 51% | EVEN | 4 | Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length |
| 51% | LOSTINTHESHUFFLE | 16 | Like this puzzle's circled letters vis-à-vis their Across answers |
| 51% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 50% | TRAPPED | 7 | Confined, like five letters in this puzzle that spell an apt word |
| 50% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 49% | LEAVENED | 8 | Unlike bread on Passover, and like four of the five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | ESSES | 5 | Half of the letters in this answer's row |
| 49% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in this clue's answer |