| 100% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to change the last word |
| 79% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to alter the last word |
| 73% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to change last word |
| 62% | NON | 3 | This prefix when used, changes the meaning of the word to its opposite |
| 57% | AMEN | 4 | Mean to alter last word |
| 57% | IQUIT | 5 | Last words to the boss |
| 54% | PARTINGSHOT | 11 | Last word, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 54% | UNDO | 4 | Reverse the last change, in word processing |
| 53% | UNDO | 4 | Erase, as the last change to a document |
| 51% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 51% | PAPERBACK | 9 | Softcover book, and what the last words of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 51% | AFTERSHOCK | 10 | Earthquake echo, or where the last words of the answers to starred clues might go |
| 51% | SEMANTIC | 8 | Relating to the meaning of words |
| 51% | CROSSWORDPUZZLE | 15 | Where to find the last words of 17-, 22-, 39- and 51-Across |
| 51% | TILDE | 5 | Squiggly mark that can change the meaning of some Spanish words |
| 50% | INREVERSE | 9 | One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means |
| 50% | BAN | 3 | Word that becomes its own synonym when the last letter is changed to "r" |
| 50% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 50% | GETOUTOFHERE | 12 | "Shoo!," and an instruction that goes with the last words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | ENDGAME | 7 | Chess match climax, and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can have |
| 50% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 50% | ECHO | 4 | Nymph who Zeus' wife cursed so that she could only speak the last words spoken to her |
| 49% | PSALM | 5 | Biblical word that means “song sung to the harp” |
| 49% | AMEN | 4 | The last word |
| 49% | OBIT | 4 | The last word |
| 49% | AMEN | 4 | The last word? |
| 49% | CAPISCE | 7 | Word at the end of a sentence to mean "Do you understand?" |
| 48% | ALBEN | 5 | Truman veep Barkley whose name sounds like a musical record if you change the last letter to an "m" |
| 48% | NUTSHELL | 8 | In a __, means getting to the point in few words |
| 48% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | 1960's TV hit … whose last word completes the answers to the nine starred clues |