| 100% | SEACHANGE | 9 | Paradigm shift that can affect the starred answers without altering their clues |
| 39% | CAKE | 4 | Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | LINE | 4 | Word that can follow each part of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 38% | SMOKE | 5 | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 38% | FIRE | 4 | Word that can combine with the ends of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 38% | INABOTTLE | 9 | Words that can follow the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | AIR | 3 | Word that can precede each half of the answers to each of the eight starred clues |
| 38% | POWER | 5 | Word that can follow the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 38% | SHORT | 5 | Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 38% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 37% | DISAPPEARINGACT | 15 | Magic trick that affects the answers to starred clues |
| 37% | IMONTHEPHONE | 12 | Mouthed words that can also be said while doing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | KEEP | 4 | Hang on to ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 37% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 36% | GOOGLEEARTH | 11 | *Popular app that can view any of the places named at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | HOME | 4 | There's no place like it ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 36% | POTATOHEAD | 10 | Toy that can be either Mr. or Mrs. ... and what the first part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 36% | IMNOTADOCTOR | 12 | With 40- and 48-Across, much-mocked ad phrase that could have been said by the answers to the four starred clues |
| 35% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 34% | BESTMUSICAL | 11 | Tony Award won by the starred answers in the years of their clues |
| 33% | SHARKWEEK | 9 | Annual Discovery Channel programming event that could feature the shows in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 33% | VOLLEYBALL | 10 | Sport that involves the moves that start the answers to starred clues |
| 33% | GAMIFICATION | 12 | What's caused a mismatch between the starred clues and their answers |
| 32% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 32% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 32% | FACIALEXPRESSION | 16 | Many an emoji, and a feature of the starred clues and their answers? |
| 32% | TEST | 4 | Exam that can follow the last word of each starred answer |
| 32% | BOX | 3 | Shipping supply that links the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | MLB | 3 | Sports org. for the players that begin the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | PIGLATIN | 8 | "Language" that explains the answers to the six starred clues |