| 100% | SUGARCOAT | 9 | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
| 56% | ONTHEEDGE | 9 | Exciting but dangerous way to live, and a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 56% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 56% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 56% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 55% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 52% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 52% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 51% | BOND | 4 | What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
| 51% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 51% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 51% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 51% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 51% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 51% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 50% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues |
| 50% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues? |
| 50% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 50% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 50% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 50% | FIVETIMESFAST | 13 | Hard way to say the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle (good luck!) |
| 50% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 50% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 50% | FIFTH | 5 | What's taken in some court proceedings, and also (in two ways) from the answers to starred clues |
| 49% | HEADOVERHEELS | 13 | **One way to fall in love ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 49% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 49% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 49% | MADETHEROUNDS | 13 | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |