| 100% | TAKESUP | 7 | Starts to learn, as a hobby |
| 62% | PINSUP | 6 | Starts to raise, as a hem |
| 62% | ASKSFOR | 7 | Starts to negotiate, as a price |
| 62% | BREW | 4 | Start 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 |
| 61% | DRUMS | 5 | Percussion instruments that one may learn to play as a hobby |
| 61% | TAKESUP | 7 | Starts, as a hobby |
| 61% | TAKEUP | 6 | Start, as a hobby |
| 59% | GETSWEIRD | 9 | Starts to feel sketchy, as a situation |
| 59% | OBOE | 4 | Slender woodwind instrument that one may learn to play as a hobby |
| 58% | REOPENS | 7 | Starts to investigate again, as a cold case |
| 56% | PIANO | 5 | Musical instrument with keys that one may learn to play as a hobby |
| 55% | SCORE | 5 | High ___, something that one who takes up gaming as a hobby might hope to beat |
| 54% | HARP | 4 | Instrument often associated with angels that one may learn to play as a hobby |
| 52% | INONESSPARETIME | 15 | As a hobby |
| 52% | NEWAT | 5 | Starting to learn |
| 50% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 50% | INTO | 4 | Really enjoying, as a hobby |
| 50% | INTO | 4 | Keen on, as a hobby |
| 50% | INTO | 4 | Really digging, as a hobby |
| 50% | INTO | 4 | Fascinated by, as a hobby |
| 50% | GOTINTO | 7 | Took up, as a hobby |
| 50% | XXXXXX | 6 | Really enjoys, as a hobby |
| 50% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start, as a computer, and what each answer to a starred clue has? |
| 50% | GETINTO | 7 | Take up seriously, as a hobby |
| 50% | TAKESUP | 7 | Occupies oneself with, as a hobby |
| 50% | INTO | 4 | Really passionate about, as a hobby |