| 100% | ACROSSTHEPOND | 13 | Overseas, like the sets of starred clues |
| 60% | GREEN | 5 | Like the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 58% | RURAL | 5 | Like the setting of "Babe" |
| 57% | SEWEDUP | 7 | Fixed, like the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 56% | FREE | 4 | Like the initial letters of the answers to the six starred clues, on "Wheel of Fortune" |
| 56% | ELOCUTIONPHRASE | 15 | Exercise in pronunciation ... like the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | HUMANNATURE | 11 | Set of traits we all have ... or a two-part description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | RURAL | 5 | Like the setting of HGTV's "Log Cabin Living" |
| 54% | PHONETIC | 8 | Like the alphabet that includes the answers to the starred clues ... and an anagram of the eight circled letters |
| 53% | DRIVEN | 6 | Like the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of this clue |
| 52% | PRIME | 5 | Like the number of this clue |
| 52% | EVEN | 4 | Like the number of this clue |
| 52% | LONE | 4 | Like the star of Tex. |
| 51% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 50% | COFFEEBREAK | 11 | Alternate puzzle title (see answers to the four sets of starred clues) |
| 50% | PARENTHETIC | 11 | Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation) |
| 50% | ODD | 3 | Like the cube root of this clue number |
| 49% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 48% | INTHERED | 8 | Owing, like the answers to the starred clues |
| 48% | ADORER | 6 | Like the president of their fave star's fan club |
| 48% | ORCA | 4 | Toothed whale like the star of "Free Willy" |
| 48% | ERASED | 6 | Like the previous clue (which originally read "Place of Jewish worship") |
| 46% | GOESOUTWITHABANG | 16 | Finishes in grand style, like the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | NEAREST | 7 | Like Proxima Centauri, of all stars but the sun |
| 45% | CARS | 4 | What the answers to starred clues are part of |
| 45% | ABROAD | 6 | Out of the country, like an overseas study program |
| 44% | CHEERYOS | 8 | Theme of the starred clues' answers |
| 44% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 43% | DEMARCATION | 11 | The setting of limits |