| 100% | ASKS | 4 | Starts a sentence with a word like "What" or "Why" |
| 87% | ASKS | 4 | Starts a sentence with a word like "who" or "where" |
| 57% | JELLY | 5 | What quivering legs feel like ... or a word that can precede the starts of 17-, 27-, 45- and 60-Across |
| 49% | NUTTY | 5 | With a taste like cashews or pecans |
| 48% | ARMCHAIR | 8 | Leisurely living room seat, or word that starts with a sleeve-filling body part |
| 48% | BRAINSTORM | 10 | Session with a volley of ideas, or word that starts with the body's grey matter part |
| 47% | HANDSOME | 8 | Adjective for a good-looking man, or word that starts with an often-gloved body part |
| 47% | LEGEND | 6 | Folklore tale, or word that starts with the name of a walking limb |
| 46% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 46% | HIPPO | 5 | Shortened name for a zoo heavyweight with a scary yawn, or word that starts with the name of a body joint |
| 46% | ROLL | 4 | With 44- and 76-Across, way to put legislators on record ... or the start, middle and end of a word ladder |
| 46% | MARSUPIAL | 9 | A mammal with a pouch, like a kangaroo or wombat |
| 46% | LONGHISTORY | 11 | What a civilization like India or Egypt has |
| 45% | DEAR | 4 | Common word to start a letter with |
| 45% | ELSE | 4 | Word with what or or |
| 44% | ELSE | 4 | Word with who, what or where |
| 44% | WHYS | 4 | Common words at the start of a lot of sentences that my four year old comes out with |
| 44% | HOT | 3 | Like summer, or a word before "spring" |
| 43% | BOOK | 4 | What you find in a library, or a word which can be used at the start of 20a, 25a, 35a, 48a, 55a, 31d, and 45d |
| 43% | ELSE | 4 | Word after who, what, when, where or why |
| 43% | ARSON | 5 | What starts with a spark of an idea? |
| 43% | PINA | 4 | Word with Bausch or, with a tilde, colada |
| 43% | CROP | 4 | What a farmer raises, like wheat or soybeans |
| 43% | SLUR | 4 | What a drunk may do with his words |
| 43% | SLUR | 4 | What a drunk might do with his words |
| 43% | SLUR | 4 | What a drunk would do with his words |
| 43% | EID | 3 | What a FOREVER stamp with Arabic words commemorates |
| 43% | PLAIN | 5 | Like a doughnut with no icing or filling |
| 43% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 42% | FIRE | 4 | What you can start with a book of matches |