| 100% | CROSS | 5 | Out of sorts ... or what completes the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 65% | OUTANDOUT | 9 | Complete, or what can follow both parts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 61% | GOINCIRCLES | 11 | *Be repetitive ... or what parts of the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 61% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 61% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Coiner of the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 60% | WHATGOESUP | 10 | Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues |
| 60% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 60% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 60% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | 1960's TV hit … whose last word completes the answers to the nine starred clues |
| 60% | GRANDOPENING | 12 | Ribbon-cutting event, or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 60% | BOMBSQUAD | 9 | Specialized unit seeking explosives ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues comprise? |
| 60% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 60% | LEADDOGS | 8 | Iditarod front-runners ... or what both parts of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 59% | TAKETHAT | 8 | "So there!" ... or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 59% | MADETHEROUNDS | 13 | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| 59% | WAR | 3 | What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 59% | DOUBLETAKE | 10 | Surprised reaction ... or a hint to what can precede both halves of the answers to the starred clues |
| 59% | AHEADOF | 7 | Leading, or, when parsed differently, what can lead into the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 59% | HITIT | 5 | "Start the music!" ... or what one could do to the finish of the answer to each starred clue |
| 59% | STUFFIT | 7 | "Shut up already!" ... or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 59% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 58% | NUTSANDBOLTS | 12 | Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are |
| 58% | RAINBOW | 7 | What the starts of the answers to the seven starred clues constitute |
| 58% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 58% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 58% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 58% | REDCROSS | 8 | Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 58% | ALLIN | 5 | Poker phrase ... or what's needed to complete the answers to the six starred clues |
| 58% | ITSWORTHASHOT | 13 | "Couldn't hurt" ... or what could be said of the answers to the starred clues? |