| 100% | INTERVIEW | 9 | Set of questions answered in order to land a job |
| 44% | TEST | 4 | Set of questions in a school (examination) |
| 44% | ERR | 3 | Fail to answer in the form of a question on “Jeopardy!,” say |
| 40% | FIVEWS | 6 | Journalism's traditional set of questions, obliquely addressed by the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | YES | 3 | One of the answers in a 20 Questions game |
| 39% | ASK | 3 | To request information in the form of a question |
| 39% | PLEDTHEFIFTH | 12 | Declined to answer a question in court |
| 38% | AIT | 3 | Bit of land in a river, to a Brit |
| 38% | NOCOMMENT | 9 | Used in refusing to answer a question |
| 38% | JELLIEDEEL | 10 | *Traditional English pub order of fish in a set stock |
| 37% | ESC | 3 | Key to press in order to get out of a program |
| 37% | HUMANNATURE | 11 | Set of traits we all have ... or a two-part description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | SIDEOFFRIES | 11 | Order at a fast-food restaurant, and a hint to parts of the starred answers |
| 36% | BEACHFRONT | 10 | Coastal strip of land, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 36% | BUGSOUT | 7 | Leaves in a hurry, or a hint to the cluing of the starred answers |
| 36% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Reversed, in a way ... and a hint to the creation of five puzzle answers |
| 36% | NAMETHEONE | 10 | Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 36% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | INSIDEMAN | 9 | Helper in a bank job, and a hint to an infiltrator in six Across answers |
| 35% | ROOM | 4 | One of three found in each answer to a starred clue |
| 35% | JUMP | 4 | Word that can precede each set of circled letters, forming a literal hint for entering certain answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |
| 35% | QUIETQUITTING | 13 | Refusing to go above and beyond the demands of one’s job, in a late-capitalism coinage |
| 35% | OLDMACDONALD | 12 | Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue |
| 35% | RECIPE | 6 | Set of instructions in a cookbook |
| 35% | WOODS | 5 | Set of clubs in a bag |
| 35% | IRONS | 5 | Set of clubs in a bag |
| 35% | FILE | 4 | Set of papers in a folder |
| 35% | UNIT | 4 | Set of lessons in a curriculum |
| 35% | THUMBINDEX | 10 | Set of notches in a dictionary |