| 100% | CROSSTHETS | 10 | Pay attention to detail ... and, homophonically, what three pairs of puzzle answers do |
| 44% | FILLINGUPWITHGAS | 16 | Pre-road trip detail ... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them |
| 43% | DOTTHEIS | 8 | Pay attention to details … or a hint to filling in seven of this puzzle's squares |
| 43% | ANAGRAMS | 8 | What the three possible answers to each of 26-, 36- and 44-Across are, leading to 27 possible solutions to this puzzle |
| 41% | ALLEYESONME | 11 | "Pay close attention to what I'm doing," and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 40% | GOUNDERCOVER | 12 | What narcs may do ... or what can literally be found in three pairs of puzzle answers |
| 39% | DOTTEDTHEIS | 11 | Attended to details, and what you've done in five places if you've completed the puzzle |
| 39% | JOINEDATTHEHIP | 14 | Linked in a way illustrated by three pairs of puzzle answers |
| 39% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 39% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 39% | USEFOWLLANGUAGE | 15 | What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? |
| 38% | CLEFT | 5 | Crevice, and, interpreted differently, what happened to five of this puzzle's answers |
| 38% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 38% | STRETCHGOAL | 11 | Crowdfunding target, and what can be found in three of this puzzle's answers |
| 38% | PUTAPININIT | 11 | "Hold that thought," and what we've done to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 38% | ONTASK | 6 | Paying attention to what needs to be done |
| 38% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 37% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 37% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 37% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 37% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 37% | BANDONTHERUN | 12 | 1973 triple-platinum album by Wings ... and what each of three answers to starred clues is, literally |
| 37% | DOUBLETIME | 10 | Holiday pay rate, perhaps, and a hint to what can follow each word of each starred answer |
| 37% | HIDDENWIRES | 11 | Devices worn by informants … and what can be found inside three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | MAKINGAPACT | 11 | Formally agreeing to terms, and what this puzzle's sets of circled letters are gradually doing |
| 36% | JOINEDATTHEHIP | 14 | Inseparable ... or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | ALLTIEDUP | 9 | Even … or like three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 35% | GOOUTONALIMB | 12 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do |
| 35% | SYMBIOTIC | 9 | Mutually beneficial … or a hint to three pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle |