| 100% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 70% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 61% | NOHESITATION | 12 | "Proceed with confidence!," and how to make the answers to 20-, 31-, and 43-Across match their clues |
| 60% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 59% | TRADEMARKS | 10 | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| 58% | ONTHEEDGE | 9 | Exciting but dangerous way to live, and a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 55% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 53% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 53% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 52% | SKIPTOWN | 8 | Run off … or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues |
| 50% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 49% | YOUHADTOBETHERE | 15 | "It was even funnier at the time," or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 46% | EVENSOUT | 8 | Balances, or, phonetically, how to make 18-, 32-, and 39-Across match their clues? |
| 44% | SHORTTERM | 9 | Temporary ... and how both ends of the answers to starred clues might be described |
| 44% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 43% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 42% | LETSGOYANKEES | 13 | Cheer heard in the Bronx, or a phonetic hint for making the starred clues match their answers |
| 41% | STUCKINARUT | 11 | Trapped by mundanity ... and hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 41% | DEBUG | 5 | Work on software, and work to make sense of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 41% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 40% | GAMIFICATION | 12 | What's caused a mismatch between the starred clues and their answers |
| 40% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 39% | ADDUP | 5 | Make sense, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | OILCHANGE | 9 | Basic auto maintenance, and how each answer to a starred clue was created |
| 38% | TAKE | 4 | With this puzzle's circled letters, exercise a certain constitutional right, and how to answer each starred clue |
| 37% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 37% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |
| 37% | IMOUT | 5 | "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed |
| 37% | SEALEDWITHAKISS | 15 | Love letter message often accompanied by a lipstick mark, and what the answers to the starred clues are, thanks to their circled letters |
| 36% | FLIPACOIN | 9 | Decide by chance ... and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |