| 100% | SUPERBOWLSUNDAY | 15 | Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues |
| 83% | SILVERSCREEN | 12 | Setting for the answers to the three starred clues - appropriately enough, given their initials |
| 71% | THISISNOTATOY | 13 | Product warning label appropriate for the answers to the four starred clues |
| 71% | TAINTEDLOVE | 11 | 1981 Top 10 hit for Soft Cell, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 70% | NOIFSANDSORBUTS | 15 | Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues? |
| 70% | DONTTAKETHEBAIT | 15 | Warning for easily provoked types ... or for the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 69% | ONE | 3 | Number of tiles per Scrabble set for the letter at the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 68% | WORLDSFAIRS | 11 | Events for which the answers to the three starred clues were built |
| 68% | DOWNGRADE | 9 | Rating reduction responsible for the answers to starred clues |
| 67% | ABC | 3 | Kind of order for the answers to the starred clues |
| 67% | STONEAGE | 8 | Apparent setting for a two-letter comic strip suggested by the answers to starred clues |
| 65% | POCKETS | 7 | Keeps for oneself ... or features of the answers to all the starred clues |
| 65% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | ENDIN | 5 | Conclude with, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | TEASEOUT | 8 | Untangle carefully, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues? |
| 65% | SEEOUT | 6 | Show the door, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | ISEE | 4 | Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | RAFTERS | 7 | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | TENSEEXCHANGE | 13 | Heated barrage of words ... and an explanation for the answers to the starred clues? |
| 63% | WRAP | 4 | With 61-Down, "Get a move on!" and an instruction for the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | STATE | 5 | With 59-Across, necessary substitutions, phonetically, for understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | CAPITALGAIN | 11 | Good news for investors, as seen literally in the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | CHRISTIANROCK | 13 | Bible camp genre, or what the answers to the starred clues could be mistaken for? |
| 62% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 62% | SUPERFOOD | 9 | Marketing term for nutrient-rich fare, or what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 61% | HUMANNATURE | 11 | Set of traits we all have ... or a two-part description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 61% | TEASEUP | 7 | Give height, as a hairdo ... or a hint for entering the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | HALFPIPE | 8 | Ramp for a skate- or snowboarder, and a description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | JUNKDRAWER | 10 | Location for the ends of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 61% | COFFEEBREAK | 11 | Alternate puzzle title (see answers to the four sets of starred clues) |