| 100% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and the letters missing from the starred answers |
| 70% | UPENDING | 8 | Toppling over, and what's missing from the starred answers |
| 70% | THEWHO | 6 | Rock opera pioneers, and what's missing from the starred answers |
| 60% | SILENT | 6 | Like the letters omitted from the starred answers (collected here) |
| 58% | TENORS | 6 | Choir section ... and what are missing from the starred clues |
| 54% | LONERS | 6 | Single sorts, and the letters dropped from pairs in the theme answers |
| 53% | HITTHE | 6 | Words missing from the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 53% | MASTERPIECES | 12 | Artistic triumphs, and what the starred answers are created from |
| 52% | TWO | 3 | Placement number of letters missing from the question, which are the key to the contest answer |
| 50% | FOLLOW | 6 | Word missing from the answers to 17-, 23-, 29-, 40-, 47- and 62-Across |
| 50% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |
| 49% | CANDY | 5 | The letters missing from "_adbur_," fittingly |
| 48% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1978 John Belushi movie, and a hint to the first three or four letters of the starred answers |
| 48% | FINALCUT | 8 | Director's demand, and the last four or five letters of each starred answer |
| 48% | GORE | 4 | Environmental activist, and the letters changed in the theme answers |
| 47% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | REARENDED | 9 | Hit from behind ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 47% | HANDS | 5 | The letters missing from "flu__" or "_traig_t," fittingly |
| 47% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 47% | CHANGEOFHEART | 13 | Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 47% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 47% | FRIENDSTOTHEEND | 15 | True buds, and a hint to the last three or four letters of each starred answer |
| 47% | THEGRINCH | 9 | Thief who stole the missing letters from this puzzle's theme answers |
| 46% | RECYCLEDMATERIALS | 17 | Parts used over and over again, such as the letters in the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 46% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 46% | FOURTEEN | 8 | With 61-Across, what President Wilson proposed for a lasting peace ... or what's missing from the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | SMELL | 5 | What's missing from the set of longest answers |
| 46% | SOUNDOUT | 8 | Pronounce, as syllables ... and what's spelled by the letters you hear from the asterisked answers' deleted syllables |
| 46% | FIFTH | 5 | What's taken in some court proceedings, and also (in two ways) from the answers to starred clues |