| 100% | IMONTHEPHONE | 12 | Mouthed words that can also be said while doing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | THATWASNTON | 11 | With 70-Down, "Never would've predicted this scenario," and what can be said about the first word of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 53% | FIRE | 4 | Word that can combine with the ends of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 52% | DOGTAGS | 7 | Military IDs on chains, and what can be found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | INABOTTLE | 9 | Words that can follow the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |
| 49% | AHEADOFSCHEDULE | 15 | Early ... or where the answers to the starred clues' ending words can be found |
| 49% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 49% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 49% | PENTATHLON | 10 | Summer Olympics contest whose participants do the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 48% | SMOKE | 5 | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 48% | PETPEEVES | 9 | Irritating behaviors, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues may be? |
| 47% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "Get ready!" ... or what to do upon hearing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 47% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | PHASER | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | RAYGUN | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | COATTAILS | 9 | Features of some formal jackets, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 47% | WHITEWATER | 10 | Canoeing challenge whose first word can precede the start and whose second word can precede the end of the answers to starred clues |
| 47% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 47% | BREADANDBUTTER | 14 | Primary source of income ... and words that can precede the two parts, respectively, of the answers to starred clues |
| 46% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 46% | CAKE | 4 | Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | STARTUPBUSINESS | 15 | Fledgling enterprise ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally do |
| 46% | ONTHELINE | 9 | In jeopardy ... and where the first words of the answers to starred clues can be found |
| 46% | FLATFINISH | 10 | Paint choice ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally be |