| 100% | ALLFOR | 6 | Start of a motto first published in an 1844 book |
| 39% | DEBUT | 5 | First appearance, as of an actor in a movie |
| 38% | TWILIGHT | 8 | First book in a series of vampire novels by Stephenie Meyer |
| 38% | PARTI | 5 | Start of a book |
| 37% | BABAR | 5 | "Histoire de ___," first in a popular series of children's books |
| 37% | SHE | 3 | H Rider Haggard novel subtitled A History of Adventure first published in book form in 1887 |
| 37% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a fitness motto |
| 37% | NOPAIN | 6 | Start of a workout motto |
| 37% | ESSAY | 5 | Part of an exam that might be written in a blue book |
| 37% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 37% | ALLFORONE | 9 | Start of a Musketeer unity motto |
| 37% | LEDE | 4 | Start of a story, in journalese |
| 37% | DARKOFTHEMOON | 13 | First book in a series of novels by John Sandford featuring 46-Across (4 wds.) |
| 36% | ALLFORONE | 9 | Start of a famous motto from literature |
| 36% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a fitness motto (2 wds.) |
| 36% | USEIT | 5 | Start of a personal trainer's motto |
| 36% | IMOK | 4 | Start of a 1970s self-help book |
| 36% | WHOSAYSIAMNOT | 13 | Start of a quip from an exercisephobe? |
| 36% | DESCENT | 7 | Start of a trip in a bathysphere |
| 36% | BTW | 3 | Start of a tangent, in a text |
| 36% | TEE | 3 | Start of a new hole in golf |
| 36% | YABBA | 5 | Start of a cry heard in Bedrock |
| 36% | OSAY | 4 | Start of a song sung in school |
| 36% | OROMEO | 6 | Start of a classic question in Shakespeare |
| 36% | PSST | 4 | Start of a conversation in class, maybe |
| 36% | PAGE | 4 | "Tomorrow is the first ___ in a book of 365" (common New Year's phrase) |
| 36% | INTHECASEWHERE | 14 | Start of a question about an old proverb |
| 36% | COGITO | 6 | Start of a line ending in a sum? |
| 36% | PIRATEEARRINGS | 14 | Start of a sign in a costume store |
| 36% | ONTHREE | 7 | Start of a countdown in a huddle, perhaps |