| 100% | OER | 3 | Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 59% | PERILOUS | 8 | Type of fight cited in the Star-Spangled Banner |
| 57% | BRAVE | 5 | Last word in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 53% | IRISEIRISEIRISE | 15 | Last three lines of the Angelou poem that starts: "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies" |
| 53% | STANZA | 6 | One of four in "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 53% | OSAY | 4 | Start of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 52% | SKYWALKER | 9 | Last name of the main character in Star Wars |
| 52% | OER | 3 | Contraction before “the land of the free,” in “The Star-Spangled Banner” |
| 52% | OER | 3 | Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 51% | ROAM | 4 | Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range" |
| 51% | OER | 3 | Elided word in "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| 51% | DOVETAILS | 9 | Fits together nicely . . . or a description of the last words of the starred clues’ answers, when read in order? |
| 50% | BRAVE | 5 | Last word of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 50% | OSAY | 4 | Starting words of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| 50% | OER | 3 | Word that saves a syllable in "The Star Spangled Banner" |
| 50% | GLEAM | 5 | Do what the twilight does in 'The Star-Spangled Banner' |
| 49% | BEARDOWN | 8 | Put in extra effort, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 48% | OER | 3 | "___ the land of the free ..." (lyric from "The Star-Spangled Banner") |
| 48% | NEILL | 5 | Last name of the "Jurassic Park" star who cameoed in "Thor: Ragnarok" |
| 48% | ELTRAINS | 8 | The 3rd Avenue line was the last of them to operate in Manhattan |
| 48% | OER | 3 | "___ the ramparts we watched ..." (lyric in "The Star-Spangled Banner") |
| 48% | OCT | 3 | Start of the last quarter of the year: Abbr. |
| 47% | MCMI | 4 | Start of the last century |
| 47% | NINETEEN | 8 | Start of the last century? |
| 47% | JEDI | 4 | Last word in the titles of two "Star Wars" movies |
| 46% | JEDI | 4 | Word after "Return of the" and "The Last" in titles of Star Wars movies |
| 46% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | IONCEHADAGIRL | 13 | Start of the opening line of 55-Across |
| 46% | TENTH | 5 | The last amendment in the Bill of Rights |