| 100% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 58% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 56% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 52% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 46% | CLEARTHEAIR | 11 | Talk things out . . . or what to do to make sense of the clues for 17-, 27-, and 44-Across |
| 46% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Do some holiday decorating ... and what you need to do to four puzzle answers to produce familiar phrases? |
| 46% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 44% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 44% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 44% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 43% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 43% | UPSELL | 6 | What the clues for 4-, 8-, 10-, 28- and 39-Down are trying to do, and what their answers feature |
| 43% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 43% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Word that must be added to 1-, 8-, 65- and 66-Across for their clues to make sense [with a visual hint in the grid] |
| 43% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 42% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 42% | AROUND | 6 | Word needed to be added to 12 appropriately placed answers in this puzzle for their clues to make sense |
| 41% | MIDDLEMAN | 9 | One who may be cut out, and what must be cut out of five answers to make sense of their clues |
| 41% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 40% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 40% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 40% | CRISES | 6 | Dire situations, and, if reparsed, a clue to making sense of six pairs of Across answers |
| 40% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 39% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 39% | FILLINTHEBLANKS | 15 | Provide missing info ... and what four clues do to their answers |
| 39% | AUTOCOMPLETE | 12 | Search engine feature ... or what you literally need to do to answer the six starred clues |
| 39% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 39% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
| 39% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |