| 100% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ... or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 100% | NONSTARTER | 10 | Plan that has no chance of working ___ or the answer to each starred clue? |
| 59% | WORKSWITHOUTANET | 16 | Has no plan B … or, when parsed differently, what each of the starred clues does vis-à-vis its answer? |
| 52% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 52% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 51% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantage ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 50% | HOME | 4 | There's no place like it ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 50% | FEMALELEAD | 10 | Feature of "Alien," "Mulan" or "Clueless" … or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 49% | EARLYBIRD | 9 | Morning person, or a feature of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 49% | INNER | 5 | With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 49% | CREATUREFEATURE | 15 | Monster movie, and what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 48% | HALFMEASURE | 11 | Paltry effort, or a literal description of the answer to each starred clue |
| 48% | COPYRIGHT | 9 | Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 48% | SHOWSTOPPER | 11 | Dazzling theater performance, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 48% | FRUITTOPPING | 12 | Dessert add-on ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 48% | CHEWTOY | 7 | Puppy amuser ... or the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 48% | FIRESTARTER | 11 | 1980 Stephen King novel, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? |
| 48% | TWICE | 5 | The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain |
| 48% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 48% | FINALSCORE | 10 | Game-ending result ... or what each of the answers to starred clues has? |
| 47% | KEEP | 4 | Hang on to ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 47% | GLOWUP | 6 | Positive personal transformation, in slang, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? |
| 47% | ACRONYM | 7 | Basis of the answer to each starred clue, commonly |
| 47% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 47% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 46% | HOT | 3 | Word describing the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 46% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 46% | ATBOTHENDS | 10 | How the answer to each of the nine starred clues repeats |
| 46% | MIXEDMETAPHOR | 13 | Answer to each of the six starred clues, literally |
| 45% | ASHOTIN | 7 | With 52-Across, wild guess ... or what the answer to each starred clue has? |