100% | CAPTAINAHAB | 11 | To whom Stubb and Flask answered, in literature |
46% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
41% | PERP | 4 | Whom to catch in the three longest answers |
40% | SONYA | 5 | Whom Raskolnikov confesses his crime to in "Crime and Punishment" |
39% | FOSSE | 5 | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
38% | HORSERACE | 9 | Who's ahead and who's not in campaign coverage, so to speak |
38% | GOTH | 4 | One who might dress in black and listen to emo music |
38% | JIE | 3 | Author and dissident Yu ___, who came to the US in 2012 |
37% | ESSAYTEST | 9 | Exam answered in a blue book ... and a phonetic hint to 17-, 23- and 44-Across |
37% | AMBROSI | 7 | Gustinus —, Austrian sculptor to whom a museum in the Augarten Palace and Park, Vienna, is dedicated |
37% | NIN | 3 | Who said "We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection" |
37% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
37% | POWERCOUPLE | 11 | Influential pairing, and a hint to the circles in four puzzle answers |
37% | MEASURESUP | 10 | Meets expectations, and a hint to words hidden in the starred answers |
37% | ADDTOGETHER | 11 | Combine ... and a hint to what's hidden in eight long answers |
37% | THISANDTHAT | 11 | Miscellany, and a hint to the hidden words in the starred answers |
37% | DROPBOX | 7 | Big name in the cloud, and a hint to the starred answers |
37% | HOLBEIN | 7 | Hans —, portraitist and court painter to Henry VIII who died in 1543 |
37% | KIESE | 5 | Laymon who wrote “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” |
37% | FRUITLESSLY | 11 | In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across |
37% | WHEREWITHAL | 11 | Money ... and, in three parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
36% | BRIDGES | 7 | Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common |
36% | INNERCITY | 9 | Densely populated area, and a hint to the capitals in the starred answers |
36% | TOPHATS | 7 | Partners of tails ... and what's found in the answers to starred clues |
36% | CRAZYEIGHTS | 11 | Simple card game, and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
36% | ROUGHHOUSE | 10 | Rowdy play, and what's hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
36% | ESSAY | 5 | Short article, and a hint to completing the titles in the theme answers |
36% | ELF | 3 | Christmas figure seen in the answers to 18, 29, 46, and 60 Across |
36% | STAUBACH | 8 | QB who led the Cowboys to victories in Super Bowls VI and XII |
36% | SELENAGOMEZ | 11 | "Hands to Myself" singer who records in both English and Spanish: 2 wds. |