| 100% | BLUE | 4 | Navy, e.g., or what the starred answers can be, in various ways |
| 55% | MESSYBUNS | 9 | Casual updos, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | WILDHORSES | 10 | 1971 Stones hit, or what can be found in the answers to starred clues |
| 54% | TOPNOTES | 8 | Initial perfume scents, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | YEARONYEAR | 10 | Like some annual accounting comparisons, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Run-of-the-mill, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 49% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 49% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | Home plate ump's concern ... or what the answer to each starred clue can be? |
| 49% | LETOFFSTEAM | 11 | Release pent-up emotions, or what the starred answers can do |
| 48% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 48% | MATE | 4 | Aussie pal, or what can follow each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | COUNTRIES | 9 | Sovereign lands ... or what are hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 48% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 47% | ITSWORTHASHOT | 13 | "Couldn't hurt" ... or what could be said of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 47% | HIDDENTAX | 9 | Income-reducing inequity, or what can be found in the four other longest puzzle answers |
| 47% | DOWNFEATHERS | 12 | Warm winter coat contents ... or what is present in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | 2015 Pixar film, or what the starred answers have in common |
| 47% | FULLOFBEANS | 11 | Mistaken, or what the starred answers literally are |
| 46% | THATSRICH | 9 | "You're one to talk!," or what can be said about the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 46% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 45% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 45% | SHAKENBAKE | 10 | Breadcrumb coating brand ... or, as two words, what is found in the answers to starred clues |
| 45% | RINGLEADERS | 11 | Crime bosses, or what the first words of the starred answers can be |
| 44% | POTATOHEAD | 10 | Toy that can be either Mr. or Mrs. ... and what the first part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 44% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |