| 100% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 65% | POTUS | 5 | Capital VIP, and a clue to what's hidden in three letters in each starred answer |
| 65% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1978 misfit comedy ... and something hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 62% | SEEDCAPITAL | 11 | Startup funds ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| 60% | SWAPMEET | 8 | Collectors' event, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 60% | DAILYJUMBLE | 11 | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 59% | CRAZYEIGHTS | 11 | Simple card game, and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 58% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Small, influential group ... and a hint to the word hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 58% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 57% | RAILSPLITTER | 12 | Abraham Lincoln nickname, and a hint to a hidden word in each answer to a starred clue |
| 56% | SECRETHANDSHAKE | 15 | Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what's hiding in the answer to the starred clues? |
| 56% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | Metaphor for one feeling slighted ... and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 56% | STUFFEDCLAM | 11 | Seafood appetizer, and what each answer to a starred clue literally is? |
| 56% | UPPERHAND | 9 | Advantageous position, and what each answer to a starred clue literally has |
| 56% | ROOM | 4 | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |
| 55% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 55% | CLASSACTION | 11 | Group lawsuit ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 55% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Familiar slogan ... and what each answer to a starred clue is? |
| 55% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | DOWNPAYMENT | 11 | Typical mortgage requirement, and what ends each answer to a starred clue |
| 55% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 54% | THREESOMES | 10 | Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones |
| 54% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 53% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 53% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 53% | WILDCOUNTRY | 11 | Remote region ... and what literally ends each answer to a starred clue |
| 53% | GOLDENHORDE | 11 | 13th/14th-century Mongol Empire region ... and an elemental hint to what's found twice in each answer to a starred clue |
| 53% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 52% | WORKOUTINTHEEND | 15 | Come to a satisfying conclusion, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 52% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |