| 100% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 89% | PESSIMIST | 9 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Down clues |
| 62% | THEENDISJUST | 12 | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | SUPERBOWL | 9 | With 26 Across, memorable spots created by the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 60% | USEAN | 5 | With 60-Across, disguise one's identity ... and what the answers to starred clues subtly do? |
| 59% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 58% | ONE | 3 | With 32-Across, what the answers to the starred clues each have |
| 58% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 58% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 58% | SWISSARMY | 9 | With 60-Across, contraption that usually includes the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 57% | STATE | 5 | With 59-Across, necessary substitutions, phonetically, for understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | INITIAL | 7 | With 36-Across, first encounter, or what the answers to the starred clues make? |
| 57% | FRENCHCHEF | 10 | Julia Child's PBS show, with "The" ... or one associated with the answers to the starred clues |
| 57% | CANADA | 6 | Place associated with the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | HIDE | 4 | With 73-Across, space-saving furniture, and what the answers to the starred clues each do |
| 56% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 56% | SCRAMBLED | 9 | With 105-Across, what the answer to each starred clue starts with |
| 56% | MOUNTAINCLIMBER | 15 | One who encounters the last parts of the answers to the starred clues on the way up |
| 56% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 56% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 56% | MEASURETWICE | 12 | With 66-Across, carpentry adage that also describes the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 56% | TRIPLE | 6 | With 39-Across, impressive basketball feat ... or a feature shared by the answers to the six starred clues |
| 55% | COMPUTERNERD | 12 | One who might use one of the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | ASHOTIN | 7 | With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 55% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | ALITTLE | 7 | With 108-Across, instruction given to a barber, or how the answers to the starred clues were literally formed |
| 55% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |