| 100% | DOWNGRADE | 9 | Rating reduction responsible for the answers to starred clues |
| 60% | SUPERBOWLSUNDAY | 15 | Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues |
| 58% | LALALAND | 8 | 2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn't!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues? |
| 57% | ABC | 3 | Kind of order for the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | THISISNOTATOY | 13 | Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues |
| 56% | TEASEOUT | 8 | Untangle carefully, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues? |
| 56% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | ENDIN | 5 | Conclude with, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | SILVERSCREEN | 12 | Setting for the answers to the three starred clues - appropriately enough, given their initials |
| 55% | TENSEEXCHANGE | 13 | Heated barrage of words ... and an explanation for the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | ISEE | 4 | Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | RAFTERS | 7 | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | WRAP | 4 | With 61-Down, "Get a move on!" and an instruction for the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | DISAPPEARINGACT | 15 | Magic trick that affects the answers to starred clues |
| 53% | BOX | 3 | Shipping supply that links the answers to starred clues |
| 53% | CHRISTIANROCK | 13 | Bible camp genre, or what the answers to the starred clues could be mistaken for? |
| 52% | PIC | 3 | Shot surrounding the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | ROOKIEMISTAKE | 13 | Error the answers to starred clues might make |
| 52% | SMILE | 5 | Expression shared by the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | STRINGENSEMBLES | 15 | Chamber groups ... and the answers to starred clues? |
| 51% | HIGHCHAIRS | 10 | Perches for tots, and what the answers to starred clues literally contain |
| 51% | CARS | 4 | What the answers to starred clues are part of |
| 51% | THREELINES | 10 | Feature of haiku, and of the answers to starred clues |
| 51% | FLIPSIDES | 9 | Opposites, and what the answers to starred clues literally contain |
| 51% | BOTTOMLINE | 10 | Net profit, and what the answers to starred clues have |
| 51% | DRAWCONCLUSIONS | 15 | Infer ... or what the answers to starred clues end with? |
| 51% | NORTHERNLIGHTS | 14 | Arctic spectacle ... and what the answers to starred clues have? |
| 51% | MIDDLEGROUND | 12 | Compromising standpoint ... and what the answers to starred clues contain? |
| 51% | AANDE | 5 | "Ghost Hunters" channel suggested by the answers to starred clues |
| 51% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |