| 100% | FOOLMEONCE | 10 | Start of a four-part saying |
| 69% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a brain health saying |
| 68% | TOERR | 5 | Start of a saying on forgiveness |
| 67% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a saying about staying fit |
| 64% | ITSABIRD | 8 | Start of a famous saying for Superman spotters: 3 wds. |
| 64% | ITSAYS | 6 | Start of a sentence said while squinting at small print |
| 61% | TETRAD | 6 | Four of a kind, say |
| 61% | AREA | 4 | Part of a town, say |
| 61% | INONIT | 6 | Part of a prank, say |
| 61% | ARC | 3 | Part of a loop, say |
| 61% | THEROADNOTTAKEN | 15 | 1916 Frost verse ... or, diverged: Start of a saying about meaning well |
| 60% | ICAME | 5 | Start of a three-part claim |
| 60% | ONONEHAND | 9 | Start of a two-part thought |
| 59% | DEAL | 4 | Start a game of 54-Across, say |
| 58% | ENGARDE | 7 | Said at the start of a fencing match |
| 58% | REPS | 4 | Parts of a set of push-ups, say |
| 58% | WHATGOESUP | 10 | Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | INTRO | 5 | Part of a show that may say "Previously on ... " |
| 58% | INTRO | 5 | Part of a show that may say "Previously on ..." |
| 57% | ALL | 3 | Part four of a thought for thanksgiving |
| 57% | ADOPTED | 7 | Not a part of from the start |
| 57% | MINUTEHAND | 10 | Part of a clock depicted four times in this puzzle? |
| 57% | STAIRSTEP | 9 | Part of a flight leading to the second floor, say |
| 57% | PLAYED | 6 | Took part in a game of Fortnite, say |
| 56% | BUSINESSEND | 11 | Front part of a gun, say |
| 56% | ACTED | 5 | Was part of a series, say |
| 56% | OMIT | 4 | Exclude parts of a story, say |
| 56% | FISH | 4 | A part of this starts 17-, 30-, 48- and 63-Across |
| 56% | WHYS | 4 | Common words at the start of a lot of sentences that my four year old comes out with |
| 56% | GUITARNECK | 10 | Fretted part of a Les Paul, say |