| 100% | FLAGS | 5 | What all of the starred answers have |
| 82% | BOW | 3 | What each of the starred answers has |
| 69% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 65% | SCALES | 6 | Climbs, or what the starred answers all have |
| 65% | STEM | 4 | Check, or what the starred answers all have |
| 64% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 62% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the ends of the answers to all the starred clues are |
| 62% | COPYRIGHT | 9 | Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 61% | OREOS | 5 | What the 10 longest answers have all been limited editions of |
| 60% | ENDGAME | 7 | Chess match climax, and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can have |
| 60% | CHANCEENCOUNTER | 15 | Bumping into someone, say ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue can have? |
| 59% | LEFTOVERS | 9 | What many have after Thanksgiving, and a description of the starred answers' gimmick |
| 59% | BAREBACK | 8 | Riding without a saddle, and what the starred answers all have |
| 59% | THEISLANDOF | 11 | With 114-Across, H.G. Wells classic, where you might imagine an individual with all of the starred answers |
| 57% | TRUCKDRIVER | 11 | What each of the answers to the starred clues once was |
| 56% | FINALSCORE | 10 | Game-ending result ... or what each of the answers to starred clues has? |
| 56% | FALLBACK | 8 | "Spring forward" partner (a reminder for November 5th) ... and what the last word of each answer to a starred clue can literally have |
| 56% | SECONDLOOK | 10 | Reappraisal, and what the answers to the starred clues all have? |
| 56% | MAKEMINEADOUBLE | 15 | What someone ordering any of the starred answers might say |
| 55% | CARS | 4 | What the answers to starred clues are part of |
| 55% | MADETHEROUNDS | 13 | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| 55% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Goof off ... or what the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 54% | POCKETS | 7 | Keeps for oneself ... or features of the answers to all the starred clues |
| 54% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 54% | FAKENEWS | 8 | Inaccurate information, and what the starred answers have in common |
| 54% | SCALE | 5 | What the four longest Across answers each have two parts of |
| 53% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 53% | EYES | 4 | What the starts of 18-, 27-, 43- and 57-Across all have |
| 53% | THEFRENCHCONNECTION | 19 | Best Picture winner of the 1970s, or what five of this puzzle's answers have |
| 52% | RELIGIOUSLEADERS | 16 | Keepers of the faith, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |