| 100% | ODETO | 5 | Start to Guilty Simpson's "The Ghetto" in 2008 |
| 45% | SITE | 4 | Starts to shelter in the enclosed location |
| 42% | SUN | 3 | Gainesville's daily, started in 1876 as the Times, but renamed in 1879 to this |
| 41% | TIGRIS | 6 | Starts in Turkey, crosses Iraq to the Persian Gulf |
| 41% | YOURATTENTIONPLEASE | 19 | Start of an announcement ... or a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the six starred clues |
| 41% | REWIND | 6 | Go back to the start, in a way |
| 41% | SISTER | 6 | Marge to Patty and Selma in the Simpsons |
| 40% | ACOL | 4 | Popular British bridge bidding system that started to evolve in the mid-1930s |
| 40% | SMITHERS | 8 | Waylon, the assistant to Mr. Burns, in "The Simpsons" |
| 40% | FHM | 3 | Men's magazine started in 1985 in the UK and reduced to a web only edition in 2015 |
| 40% | BOX | 3 | Start to "car" to give a yellow train card in the board game "Ticket to Ride" |
| 40% | RUTHLESSTACTICS | 15 | What the Red Sox had to start using in 1920? |
| 39% | ISPYWITHMYLITTLEEYE | 19 | Children's game phrase that should start the italicized clues … or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle |
| 39% | CERTAINGIRLS | 12 | 2008 Jennifer Weiner bestseller that's the sequel to her debut novel "Good in Bed": 2 wds. |
| 39% | DISCOSTU | 8 | "The Simpsons" character who often refers to himself in the third person |
| 39% | KEY | 3 | What you turn in the ignition switch to start a car |
| 38% | MARGE | 5 | * ___ Simpson, mother to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie in the animated sitcom "The Simpsons" |
| 38% | DOH | 3 | "The Simpsons" exclamation that was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001 |
| 38% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 38% | AVA | 3 | Name that fills in the blanks to make another name: S_ _ _NNAH |
| 37% | MANJULA | 7 | In The Simpsons, __ is Apu's wife |
| 37% | BEARDOWN | 8 | Put in extra effort, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 37% | SKA | 3 | Ongoing radio telescope project being built in Australia and South Africa, that's planned to start generating data in the late 2020s (abbr.) |
| 37% | ALLTHATJAZZ | 11 | Bob Fosse film title relevant to the starts of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Homer's father in The Simpsons |
| 37% | ROYSNYDER | 9 | Springfield's judge in The Simpsons |
| 37% | PETERCAPALDI | 12 | Twelfth actor to play the lead role in 15-Across, starting in 2013: 2 wds. |
| 36% | KEY | 3 | ___ West, island in Florida that is home to the Harry S. Truman Little White House |
| 36% | INDENTS | 7 | Starts to the right |
| 36% | MTN | 3 | PepsiCo used these three letters in 2008 to rebrand the soft drink that now offers Pitch Black as a flavor |