| 100% | ABDUCTION | 9 | Star-Lord's origin story starts with this crime |
| 39% | ONE | 3 | No U.S. area code starts with this |
| 36% | CANVAS | 6 | Most artists start with this blank medium |
| 35% | FLEETWOOD | 9 | Stevie Nicks got her start with this Mac band |
| 34% | SCORPIO | 7 | Zodiac starts with the letter S |
| 34% | ROB | 3 | Kardashian who's on this season's "Dancing With the Stars" |
| 34% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 33% | EYEEXAM | 7 | This starts with an E |
| 33% | ARSON | 5 | Crime started with a match |
| 33% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 33% | HINT | 4 | "It starts with an H," for this answer |
| 33% | SAYHELLOTOMY | 12 | With 22-Down, classic crime-movie line ... and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 33% | TRIPLE | 6 | With 47-Down, multitalented Broadway star ... or what's "veiled" in this puzzle's circles |
| 32% | WOODY | 5 | With 55-Down, star of this puzzle |
| 32% | OWEN | 4 | "Impeachment: American Crime Story" star Clive |
| 32% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 31% | FBITRUE | 7 | Paramount+ docuseries with real-life crime stories |
| 31% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 31% | THEMANFROMUNCLE | 15 | Hit 1960's TV show with a hint to the nine starred clues in this puzzle |
| 30% | ROGUE | 5 | With 13-Down, 2016 film subtitled "A Star Wars Story" |
| 30% | OSCAR | 5 | With 56-Down, start of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 30% | REVENGEISADISH | 14 | With 11-Down, proverb about delayed retribution, with a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 30% | OUR | 3 | Lord's Prayer start |
| 30% | FAITHHILL | 9 | US country star with hits Breathe and This Kiss |
| 30% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Saying about compatible partners … as suggested by the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 30% | RACHEL | 6 | Singer Stevens, S Club 7 star with solo career |
| 30% | IDEA | 4 | Part of a business's origin story |
| 29% | TWOPARTER | 9 | Story with a cliffhanger, perhaps, and a hint to the starred answers |
| 29% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 29% | ALKALINE | 8 | Gwyneth starts each day with a glass of this water |