| 100% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year, which is represented by the Zodiac animals at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | SINKORSWIM | 10 | Success-versus-failure metaphor, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | WILDFLOWERS | 11 | Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 54% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 51% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 49% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | MACOPERATINGSYSTEMS | 19 | Things found at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 49% | OCEAN | 5 | Body that appears at the start of the answers to the five starred clues |
| 49% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 48% | DOGTAGS | 7 | Military IDs on chains, and what can be found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | TWOTRUTHSANDALIE | 16 | Ice-breaker activity involving three claims, or what the starts of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 48% | CHANGESONESTUNE | 15 | Starts looking at things differently, as demonstrated by the first words of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 47% | XOXO | 4 | Affectionate sign-off … or a pattern hinting at the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 47% | JUGBAND | 7 | *Where the starts of the answers to the five starred clues can all be found |
| 46% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 46% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 46% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 45% | LOSEWEIGHT | 10 | Common New Year's resolution -- as hinted at by the answers to the four starred clues |
| 45% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 45% | YOGAPOSES | 9 | Asanas found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | JUSTDESSERTS | 12 | Appropriate reward, as often misspelled ... and what the starts of the answers to starred clues might be |
| 45% | PISAITALY | 9 | Home to this puzzle's featured structure, as hinted at by the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | PHASER | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | RAYGUN | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 44% | INVOGUE | 7 | Fashionable ... or where you might find the starts of the answers to the starred clues |