| 100% | ADREAMWITHINADREAM | 18 | Question to an English teacher: "Why did Poe write his poem "___"? Answer: "___?" (with 98-Across) |
| 31% | ONLYASGOODASTHE | 15 | With 98-Across, to an aspiring entrepreneur: "You're ..." |
| 30% | ESSAY | 5 | Composition submitted to an English teacher |
| 29% | THANKS | 6 | With 53 Across, hesitant answer to the question "Who starred with M. Ryan in 'Sleepless in Seattle'?" |
| 27% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 27% | ESSAY | 5 | One in a stack for an English teacher to grade |
| 27% | GIMME | 5 | Question with an easy answer |
| 27% | YOU | 3 | With 39-Across, answer to the question "Who's the solver of this puzzle?" |
| 26% | AWAY | 4 | Do ___ with (Put an end to) |
| 26% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |
| 26% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 26% | STOPPINGBYWOODS | 15 | With 53 Across, ''miles to go'' poem |
| 26% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 26% | USEAN | 5 | With 60-Across, disguise one's identity ... and what the answers to starred clues subtly do? |
| 26% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 26% | WRONG | 5 | Like a test answer with an "x" next to it |
| 25% | INVASIONOFTHE | 13 | With 44-Across, classic 1956 film ... and why the answers to starred clues aren't quite themselves? |
| 25% | ABA | 3 | Route to becoming an English teacher? |
| 25% | BETWEENTHE | 10 | With 38-Across, 2015 memoir by Ta-Nehisi Coates written as a letter to his son: 2 wds. |
| 25% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 25% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 25% | ASK | 3 | Put a question as to get an answer |
| 25% | SEAN | 4 | Name written with an accent in Irish English |
| 24% | ULALUME | 7 | Poe poem whose narrator inadvertently wanders to his lover’s tomb |
| 24% | WORKINGHARDOR | 13 | With 47 Across, facetious question to someone putting in a shift |
| 24% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 24% | STALLTHEKINGSMEN | 16 | Order from an old English outlaw to his cohorts? |
| 24% | RSVPS | 5 | Gets back to a host with an answer, informally |
| 24% | WILL | 4 | Document that details what to do with an estate |
| 24% | THEENDISJUST | 12 | With 43-Across, "When one door closes, another door opens," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |