| 100% | STOMP | 5 | Walk heavily, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 80% | ATHENS | 6 | Capital of Greece, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 80% | RAFTERS | 7 | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 77% | PANDA | 5 | World Wildlife Fund logo ... or a three-word hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 75% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 71% | LETTERDROP | 10 | Opening at the post office ... or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 71% | TWOCANPLAY | 10 | With 28-Down, words to a cheater ... or an honest hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 70% | ADHOMINEM | 9 | Kind of fallacious argument … or, phonetically, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 70% | READALOUD | 9 | *Woodwind permitted, say ... or a hint to sounding out the answers to the starred clues? |
| 69% | ISEE | 4 | Words of comprehension, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 69% | HANDYDANDY | 10 | *Very convenient ... or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 69% | ADDED | 5 | Extra, and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 68% | ROUT | 4 | Decisive defeat, and a two-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 67% | PARAPHRASES | 11 | Puts in other words, or, if read as three pieces, a hint to the starred answers |
| 67% | CRYUNCLE | 8 | Concede ... or a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues |
| 66% | DISMISSAL | 9 | Favorite time of the school day for some teachers and students, or a two-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 66% | CHECKPLEASE | 11 | Words to a server ... or a hint to the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| 66% | SUNRISESUNSET | 13 | Classic Broadway show tune, or a hint to the word ladder revealed by the answers to the eight starred clues |
| 65% | FRUITLESS | 9 | Unproductive ... or, literally, a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 65% | BREAKDANCES | 11 | Acrobatic street moves ... or a hint to parts of the answers to starred clues |
| 65% | WARANDPEACE | 11 | Classic novel of 1,000+ pages ... or a hint to the word ladder formed by the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | ALLABOARD | 9 | Train conductor's cry … or a hint to each word in the answers to the starred clues |
| 65% | WHEREWITHAL | 11 | Money ... and, in three parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 63% | ADDUP | 5 | Make sense, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | THIS | 4 | With 64-Across, NBC drama ... or, in four parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 63% | LOSTCITIES | 10 | Places to discover, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | HORSEPLAY | 9 | Roughhousing, or a hint to both parts of the answers to starred clues |
| 63% | CRACKTHECASE | 12 | Solve a mystery, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | FLIPACOIN | 9 | Decide by chance ... and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | COLDFRONTS | 10 | Harbingers of lower temperatures, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |