| 100% | LOUNGE | 6 | Room in Clue with a secret passage to the Conservatory |
| 94% | STUDY | 5 | Room with a secret passage to the kitchen in the board game Clue |
| 89% | LOUNGE | 6 | Room with a secret passage to the Conservatory |
| 85% | STUDY | 5 | Room in the game Clue with a secret passage to the kitchen |
| 84% | STUDY | 5 | Clue room with a secret passage to the kitchen |
| 56% | KITCHEN | 7 | It connects to the Study via secret passage, in Clue |
| 55% | CLUE | 4 | Board game with a secret passageway from the conservatory to the lounge |
| 53% | SPA | 3 | Room that replaced the conservatory in a 2008 edition of Clue |
| 52% | Y=X | 3 | Basic linear expression with a hint to answering the five starred clues in this puzzle |
| 48% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 46% | MALL | 4 | Starcourt ___, Hawkins' shopping center with a secret underground entry to the Upside Down |
| 46% | HUEY | 4 | Singer Lewis with a cameo in "Back to the Future" |
| 45% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Engage in tomfoolery ... and a hint to what goes with each part of the answers to starred clues, but not in the same way |
| 45% | RIGHTONR | 8 | Legal maneuver ... with a hint to answering seven clues in this puzzle |
| 45% | CITY | 4 | Location marked with a dot in the board game Ticket to Ride |
| 44% | THEJOKER | 8 | Villain associated with a staircase in the Bronx, thanks to a 2019 movie |
| 44% | FLOORPLAN | 9 | Diagram with the layout of rooms in a building |
| 44% | PANEL | 5 | A secret one sometimes slid aside and led to secret rooms or down into the dungeons |
| 44% | PAPERCUTTER | 11 | Stationery supply with a blade ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 43% | TAHOE | 5 | California freshwater lake with a name that translates to "edge of the lake" in Washoe |
| 43% | MANBABY | 7 | Certain immature adult … with a hint to both halves of the answers to each starred clue |
| 43% | OHS | 3 | Cries of surprise ... with a hint to all the non-Y vowels found in this puzzle |
| 43% | OTANNENBAUM | 11 | Seasonal song with a hint to the last words in 17-, 25-, 37- and 45-Across |
| 43% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 42% | GETUP | 5 | “What’s with the ___?” (question to a friend in an unusual outfit) |
| 42% | REAR | 4 | Prefix with "guard" to mean the last part in a military force |
| 42% | RELAX | 5 | Advice - probably ignored - to the guy wearing a track in carpet in the delivery room waiting area |
| 42% | AISLES | 6 | Passages in a church, parallel to the nave |
| 42% | SIDE | 4 | In billiards, spin imparted to a ball by striking it off-centre with the cue |
| 42% | THETORTURED | 11 | With 35-Across, 2024 album that led to a new era in the Eras Tour |