| 100% | INTHEPENALTYBOX | 15 | Temporarily disqualified due to an infraction that begins any of seven answers to starred clues |
| 43% | FALSESTARTS | 11 | Track meet infractions ... or short words hiding at the beginning of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | RNS | 3 | Hosp. staffers, or an initial feature of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | GETOUTOFHERE | 12 | "Shoo!," and an instruction that goes with the last words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | TOOLBOX | 7 | Carpenter's accessory that might hold the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | BACKORDERED | 11 | Like goods that are temporarily out of stock ... or a hint, alphabetically, to the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | PHONETIC | 8 | Like the alphabet that includes the answers to the starred clues ... and an anagram of the eight circled letters |
| 37% | GOOGLEEARTH | 11 | *Popular app that can view any of the places named at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | UMAMI | 5 | Fifth and newest member of the set that includes the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | DONTBESILLY | 11 | "C'mon, get serious!" ... and an admonition evidently ignored by the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | TWICE | 5 | The Process of Elimination: In the answer to each starred clue, cross out any letter that appears ___; then read the letters that remain |
| 36% | BREADANDBUTTER | 14 | Primary source of income ... and words that can precede the two parts, respectively, of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | SMOKE | 5 | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 36% | FIRE | 4 | Word that can combine with the ends of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 36% | ALLKIDDINGASIDE | 15 | "But seriously," and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | DROPIT | 6 | "That'll be enough of that subject" ... and a hint to solving the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | RAINBOW | 7 | What the starts of the answers to the seven starred clues constitute |
| 35% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 35% | ALAMODE | 7 | Fashionable, or an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | NOLA | 4 | Mardi Gras city nickname, and an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | INABOTTLE | 9 | Words that can follow the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | CAKE | 4 | Word that can follow either half of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 35% | POTATOHEAD | 10 | Toy that can be either Mr. or Mrs. ... and what the first part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 35% | SHAKYGROUND | 11 | With "on," not strong, as an argument ... and what might cause the ends of answers to starred clues? |
| 35% | KICKSTARTS | 10 | Reinvigorates, as an economy ... or a hint to the beginnings of the answers to starred clues |
| 35% | NOEL | 4 | Holiday song, and, phonetically, an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | IMDOWN | 6 | "Count me in!," or an apt description of the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | POWER | 5 | Word that can follow the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |