| 100% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 68% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 65% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 65% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 62% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 59% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 58% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 57% | RAINOUT | 7 | Ballpark bummer, and a hint to making sense of the starred answers |
| 54% | CLEARTHEAIR | 11 | Talk things out . . . or what to do to make sense of the clues for 17-, 27-, and 44-Across |
| 53% | DEBUG | 5 | Work on software, and work to make sense of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 52% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 52% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 51% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 51% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 51% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 51% | GOGREEN | 7 | Make ecologically sound decisions, and a hint to what the starred answers do |
| 50% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 50% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 50% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 49% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 49% | GETONBOARD | 10 | "Join the team," or what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 49% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |
| 49% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 49% | PIGOUT | 6 | Ingurgitate, and a hint to making sense of the starred clues |
| 49% | LEADINGLADY | 11 | Female box office star, and what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 49% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 49% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 49% | TAKETHAT | 8 | "So there!" ... or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 49% | GREENBACK | 9 | Dollar bill, e.g. ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 49% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |