| 100% | DISARMAMENT | 11 | Today's theme, which will help answer the six capitalized clues |
| 63% | PROHIBITION | 11 | Bygone era, which will help answer the five capitalized clues |
| 40% | BAA | 3 | Lamb's sound ... which must be "silenced" to make sense of the starred clues' answers |
| 38% | SIGHTRHYME | 10 | What the answer to each capitalized clue is |
| 36% | EASTEREGG | 9 | Hidden DVD feature ... which can be found, literally, in the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | FIVEWS | 6 | Homonym theme of the starred clue's answers |
| 34% | ELIS | 4 | Today's region of Greece in which the ancient games of Olympia were held |
| 34% | TRIPLECROWN | 11 | What was won by the answer to each capitalized clue |
| 34% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 34% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 34% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 33% | CHEERYOS | 8 | Theme of the starred clues' answers |
| 33% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Game in which the answers to the starred clues are legal plays but cannot be formed even if you have both blanks |
| 33% | WEST | 4 | The half of the keyboard on which all of this puzzle's answers can be typed |
| 32% | AID | 3 | Helping hand that's been "lent" to the four longest answers |
| 32% | EGOCENTRICITIES | 15 | Traits helpful in answering the eight capitalized clues |
| 32% | THINKQUICKLY | 12 | To understand this puzzle's theme, read the ends of the answers to the starred clues and ... |
| 32% | ATSEA | 5 | Clueless ... or where the answers to this puzzle's starred clues were all first used |
| 32% | HEADSTART | 9 | Racer's advantage ... and what each part of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 32% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 32% | EDGE | 4 | The answer to this clue is located on one |
| 32% | EYELESS | 7 | Unable to see ... or, when taken as a homophone, what today's puzzle answers and clues all are |
| 31% | ABSTRACTART | 11 | What may be created using the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 31% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 31% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year, which is represented by the Zodiac animals at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | TASTE | 5 | The clue for this answer is found at 7-Across |
| 31% | SHOWDOWNS | 9 | Decisive confrontations ... or what the answers to the six starred clues are? |
| 31% | THINGSWITHWINGS | 15 | What the answers to all the asterisked clues are |
| 31% | BYACCIDENT | 10 | How all the theme answers were invented or discovered |
| 31% | CARS | 4 | What the answers to starred clues are part of |