| 100% | BREW | 4 | Start to form, as a storm |
| 77% | BREW | 4 | Begin to form, as a storm. |
| 62% | FRAY | 4 | Start to deteriorate, as a cord |
| 62% | FRAY | 4 | Start to unravel, as a towel |
| 62% | TAKEROOT | 8 | Start to grow, as a tree |
| 62% | ROT | 3 | Start to stink, as a banana |
| 62% | PINSUP | 6 | Starts to raise, as a hem |
| 62% | ASKSFOR | 7 | Starts to negotiate, as a price |
| 62% | TAKESUP | 7 | Starts to learn, as a hobby |
| 59% | GETSWEIRD | 9 | Starts to feel sketchy, as a situation |
| 58% | REOPENS | 7 | Starts to investigate again, as a cold case |
| 56% | LINEONE | 7 | Start of a form to fill out |
| 53% | ICEIN | 5 | Cause to be stranded, as by a winter storm |
| 52% | UNI | 3 | Start to form? |
| 50% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 50% | ABATE | 5 | Let up, as a storm |
| 50% | RAGES | 5 | Continues furiously, as a storm |
| 50% | RAGED | 5 | Was fierce, as a storm |
| 50% | ABATE | 5 | Lose strength, as a storm |
| 50% | RAGED | 5 | Continued violently, as a storm |
| 50% | FREAK | 5 | Totally unexpected, as a storm |
| 50% | RAGED | 5 | Persisted noisily, as a storm |
| 50% | RAGES | 5 | Continues intensely, as a storm |
| 50% | WEATHERS | 8 | Rides out, as a storm |
| 50% | ABATE | 5 | Die down, as a storm |
| 50% | WAITOUT | 7 | Patiently endure, as a storm |
| 50% | ABATE | 5 | Tail off, as a storm |
| 50% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 50% | BLOWOVER | 8 | Pass without effect, as a storm |
| 50% | DEEPENS | 7 | Increases in intensity, as a storm |