| 100% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 62% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 58% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 56% | TEAMPLAYERS | 11 | Ones unconcerned with individual achievements ... or what both words in the answers to the starred clues are examples of |
| 56% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 56% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 55% | INNERGODDESS | 12 | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Run-of-the-mill, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | WILDHORSES | 10 | 1971 Stones hit, or what can be found in the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | MESSYBUNS | 9 | Casual updos, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 55% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 55% | TOPNOTES | 8 | Initial perfume scents, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | YEARONYEAR | 10 | Like some annual accounting comparisons, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 54% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 53% | SMOKE | 5 | Word that can combine with the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 53% | ITSWORTHASHOT | 13 | "Couldn't hurt" ... or what could be said of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | AHEADOF | 7 | Leading, or, when parsed differently, what can lead into the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 52% | ITSADEAL | 8 | "Agreed!" ... and what can be said about the start of the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | JUGBAND | 7 | *Where the starts of the answers to the five starred clues can all be found |
| 52% | HEADLIGHT | 9 | Night driving need, and what can go with the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 52% | WHITEMATTER | 11 | Certain brain tissue, or what each half of the answers to the starred clues can be |
| 52% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | SINKORSWIM | 10 | Success-versus-failure metaphor, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 52% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |