| 100% | BEACHGOER | 9 | One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe |
| 58% | WORD | 4 | Kind of ladder exemplified by the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 58% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 57% | SAILS | 5 | Travels over what's hidden in the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 56% | SETIN | 5 | With 59-Down, permanent ... or, literally, a feature of the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 56% | DEADENDS | 8 | Unfruitful paths ... or a description of both words in the answers to the seven starred clues? |
| 55% | PESSIMIST | 9 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Down clues |
| 55% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 55% | MOUNTAINCLIMBER | 15 | One who encounters the last parts of the answers to the starred clues on the way up |
| 52% | GEM | 3 | There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue |
| 52% | BORNLOSERS | 10 | Ones fated to fail, or what the answers to the starred clues are, initially? |
| 52% | ITSADEAL | 8 | "You're on!" … and a hint to answering the seven starred clues |
| 52% | FRENCHCHEF | 10 | Julia Child's PBS show, with "The" ... or one associated with the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 51% | POTTYMOUTH | 10 | One using crude language ... or one saying the last parts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 50% | ISLANDHOPPING | 13 | Yachter's itinerary, maybe ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | CARBOLOADED | 11 | Fueled up before a big race, or a description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 50% | BUCKETLIST | 10 | Enumeration of life goals, on which one should also find the answers to the starred clues? |
| 50% | EIGHTBALLS | 10 | "Magic" toys ... or what the answers to starred clues add up to? |
| 50% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 49% | THATSRICH | 9 | "You're one to talk!," or what can be said about the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | OHMAN | 5 | What one might say after figuring out what the answers to the starred clues have in common? |
| 49% | ANTS | 4 | "Marchers" through the answers to the five starred clues |
| 49% | SUPERBOWLSUNDAY | 15 | Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues |
| 49% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Coiner of the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 49% | INITIALINITIALS | 15 | What the answers to the 15 starred clues have |
| 49% | FISHERMEN | 9 | What the answers to the four starred clues are? |
| 49% | 90SFADS | 7 | What the answers to the four starred clues are |
| 49% | WELLROUNDEDDIET | 15 | Nutritionist's recommendation … or what the answers to the starred clues make up, to an overly literal person? |
| 49% | HITTHE | 6 | Words missing from the answers to the eight starred clues |