| 100% | MOSTEL | 6 | Star of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" |
| 73% | FORUM | 5 | A funny thing happened on the way to this, in an old musical |
| 71% | FORUM | 5 | "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ___" |
| 48% | STATUTES | 8 | Things passed on the way to the White House? |
| 44% | ACTIONITEM | 10 | One of the top things on a to-do list |
| 44% | PAWN | 4 | One on the way to a promotion? |
| 44% | AHN | 3 | Philip ___, first Asian-American film actor to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 43% | EREBUS | 6 | Place of darkness on the way to Hades |
| 43% | KEEP | 4 | Hang on to ... or a word that can precede either half of the answer to each starred clue |
| 43% | SKITOW | 6 | Way to the top of a mountain |
| 42% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 42% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 42% | ARC | 3 | Path that a basketball takes on its way to the basket |
| 41% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 41% | AGAINST | 7 | Averse to making a profit on the way |
| 41% | WANNABET | 8 | "Care to wager?" ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | LURE | 4 | Thing on the end of a line |
| 41% | PORTS | 5 | Things on the back of a computer |
| 40% | ERR | 3 | Thing to do on the side of caution |
| 40% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Engage in tomfoolery ... and a hint to what goes with each part of the answers to starred clues, but not in the same way |
| 40% | MACOPERATINGSYSTEMS | 19 | Things found at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 40% | REHEM | 5 | A way to alter the length of a trouser |
| 40% | ARMREST | 7 | At the end of a sofa, to lean on |
| 40% | OPER | 4 | Abbr. to the right of a star |
| 40% | BROKEN | 6 | With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt description of each answer to a starred clue |
| 40% | THEATRE | 7 | A series of "insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster," per Tom Stoppard |
| 40% | OMEN | 4 | Sign ... or a description of the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 40% | TRIPLETIME | 10 | Minuet meter ... or a description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 39% | OLDAGE | 6 | "The most unexpected of all things that happen to a man," per Leon Trotsky |
| 39% | CATFISHES | 9 | Misrepresents oneself to on the internet, in a way |