| 100% | GOAT | 4 | Superlative acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 90% | YOLO | 4 | "Carpe diem" acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | PISAITALY | 9 | Home to this puzzle's featured structure, as hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | CHRISTMASEVE | 12 | Apt phrase spelled out by the first letters of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | TLDR | 4 | "I lost interest" acronym spelled out by the starts of four answers in this puzzle |
| 61% | MENSA | 5 | Group described by the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 59% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 58% | DONTBESILLY | 11 | "C'mon, get serious!" ... and an admonition evidently ignored by the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 58% | OPPOSITESATTRACT | 16 | Saying about compatible partners … as suggested by the starts of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 56% | INVOGUE | 7 | Fashionable ... or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | AHEADOF | 7 | Leading, or, when parsed differently, what can lead into the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | POWER | 5 | Word that can follow the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 55% | SHORT | 5 | Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 55% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Word that can precede the starts of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 55% | OCEAN | 5 | Body that appears at the start of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 55% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 55% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | SINKORSWIM | 10 | Success-versus-failure metaphor, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | TWOTRUTHSANDALIE | 16 | Ice-breaker activity involving three claims, or what the starts of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 54% | GREEN | 5 | Like the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 54% | WAR | 3 | What's broken out of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | WILDFLOWERS | 11 | Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | RAINBOW | 7 | What the starts of the answers to the seven starred clues constitute |
| 54% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 54% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | Reason for a courtroom objection, and what the start of the answer to each starred clue has |