| 100% | AUTOMATES | 9 | Streamlines, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are |
| 58% | LETTERDROP | 10 | Opening at the post office ... or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | SHAKENBAKE | 10 | Breadcrumb coating brand ... or, as two words, what is found in the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 54% | THINKTANK | 9 | Research institute ... or, when read as a direction, a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 53% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 52% | KICKSTARTS | 10 | Reinvigorates, as an economy ... or a hint to the beginnings of the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 51% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |
| 51% | ALTOGETHER | 10 | On the whole ... or, when read in two parts, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 51% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 50% | FALSESTARTS | 11 | Track meet infractions ... or short words hiding at the beginning of the answers to starred clues |
| 50% | JUSTDESSERTS | 12 | Appropriate reward, as often misspelled ... and what the starts of the answers to starred clues might be |
| 49% | WINTERENDS | 10 | What happens on March 20, 2022, at 11:33 a.m. ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues are |
| 49% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 48% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 48% | NUTSANDBOLTS | 12 | Essentials, or what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are |
| 48% | CRYUNCLE | 8 | Concede ... or a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 48% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 48% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 48% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 48% | ITSATRAP | 8 | Warning cry ... or a hint to the beginnings of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 48% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 47% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 47% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | FIREANDRAIN | 11 | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| 47% | TWOTRUTHSANDALIE | 16 | Ice-breaker activity involving three claims, or what the starts of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 47% | DEADEND | 7 | Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue is? |