| 100% | OPENINGDAY | 10 | Start of the baseball season ... or what the start of each starred clue is? |
| 67% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 67% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 66% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 66% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 65% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 65% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 65% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 64% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 64% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 64% | TWOTRUTHSANDALIE | 16 | Ice-breaker activity involving three claims, or what the starts of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 64% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 63% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 63% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 63% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 62% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 62% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 62% | DEADEND | 7 | Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 61% | WHITEMATTER | 11 | Certain brain tissue, or what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| 60% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 60% | FEMALELEAD | 10 | Feature of "Alien," "Mulan" or "Clueless" … or what the answer to each starred clue has? |
| 60% | STRIKEZONE | 10 | Home plate ump's concern ... or what the answer to each starred clue can be? |
| 59% | TWOSUITER | 9 | Piece of carry-on luggage, and what the answer to each starred clue literally is |
| 58% | STUFFIT | 7 | "Shut up already!" ... or what you can do to the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 58% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 58% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 58% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | GRANDOPENING | 12 | Ribbon-cutting event, or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 57% | ADAPTATION | 10 | *2002 movie in which a Susan Orlean work is described as “that sprawling New Yorker shit” . . . or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 57% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |