| 100% | MGM | 3 | Maker of movies that always get off to a roaring start? |
| 54% | MGM | 3 | Studio whose movies all get off to a roaring start? |
| 39% | SPILLEDTHEBEANS | 15 | Things got off to a bad start when one trainee tripped and ... |
| 37% | GROUNDRUNNING | 13 | *Get off to a quick start |
| 36% | START | 5 | Get off to a flying ___ |
| 36% | MELON | 5 | Fruit that always seems to be the majority of a fruit cup |
| 35% | BIRD | 4 | What gets this puzzle off to a flying start? |
| 35% | MGM | 3 | It starts movies off with a roar |
| 35% | ALATE | 5 | Get off to ___ start |
| 34% | SCOOP | 5 | Tool that's used to get ice cream out of a tub |
| 34% | THEEVENINGSTAR | 14 | 1996 movie that was a sequel to the 1983 Best Picture winner "Terms of Endearment": 3 wds. |
| 34% | HANNIBAL | 8 | 2001 movie that was a sequel to the 1991 Best Picture winner "The Silence of the Lambs" |
| 33% | IDIDNTRECOGNIZE | 15 | Start of a comment that 7 Down/18 Across claimed to have heard ''a million times'' |
| 33% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 33% | EER | 3 | Stretch of time it takes to get to doomsday, to those with a poetical bent |
| 33% | ENTER | 5 | What's the key to getting from the end of a line to the start? |
| 33% | EXPOSURE | 8 | The amount of light that gets to a piece of film |
| 32% | MGMLION | 7 | Roaring start to some movies? |
| 32% | BEARSFRUIT | 10 | Pays off ... or a hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, and 47-Across |
| 32% | DISEMBARK | 9 | Get off of a ship |
| 32% | RIGHTFOOT | 9 | Get off on the __; make a successful start |
| 32% | ELOPES | 6 | Runs off to a justice of the peace |
| 32% | TEN | 3 | Roll that could get you from one corner of a Monopoly board to the next |
| 32% | SKILIFTS | 8 | Conveyances that get people to the top of a snowy mountain: 2 wds. |
| 32% | STAIN | 5 | Spot that could be tough to get out of a shirt |
| 32% | LUTE | 4 | Stringed instrument that becomes a woodwind instrument when an F is added to the start of its name |
| 31% | HOMESINONMOONSHINE | 18 | Gets closer to a batch of hooch? |
| 31% | ROM | 3 | ___-com (type of movie that might include a meet-cute) |
| 31% | FLASHFORWARD | 12 | Narrative device that peeks at the future ... and a hint to the start of 20-, 31-, and 48-Across |
| 31% | CAT | 3 | In 1963, William Oldendorf got a patent that led to commercial availability of this type of scanner in 1972 |