| 100% | EGOCENTRICITIES | 15 | Traits helpful in answering the eight capitalized clues |
| 40% | MMM | 3 | What the eight longest answers have in common |
| 39% | FOUR | 4 | The number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 38% | MAKEMONEY | 9 | Earn … or what answering the starred clues will do in each case |
| 38% | SUV | 3 | What each clue asterisk indicates in the answer |
| 37% | SPREADTHIN | 10 | What's found in the other eight longest answers |
| 37% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in the answer to this clue |
| 37% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 37% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 37% | AND | 3 | What the puzzle's eight longest answers have in common |
| 37% | ACROSS | 6 | How the answer to this clue goes in the grid |
| 37% | SIGHTRHYME | 10 | What the answer to each capitalized clue is |
| 36% | BOND | 4 | What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
| 36% | ICKFACTOR | 9 | Measure of grossness avoided in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | GOESOUTWITHABANG | 16 | Finishes in grand style, like the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | BRITISHISMS | 11 | Words found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 36% | MLB | 3 | Org. in which you'd hear the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | HAIR | 4 | Bisected word in the eight longest answers |
| 36% | STANDARDWORKDAY | 15 | Hint to the word ladder in the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | OILANDWATER | 11 | Substances that never mix, except in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 36% | BIRDS | 5 | Things hidden in the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues |
| 36% | THEBRONTES | 10 | Literary trio found in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 36% | LAYERCAKE | 9 | *Dessert literally represented in six pairs of answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 35% | THEYALLCONTAINA | 15 | With 117-Across, what the answers to the italicized clues have in common |
| 35% | SUGARCOAT | 9 | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
| 35% | ECHOLOCATION | 12 | Nature's sonar, and what varies in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 35% | ELEMENTOFSURPRISE | 17 | Unexpected twist, or what's found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 35% | BESTMUSICAL | 11 | Tony Award won by the starred answers in the years of their clues |
| 35% | MODUSOPERANDI | 13 | Plan of action, as "initially" found in the answers to the starred clues? |