| 100% | BOOKS | 5 | What amazon sold to start |
| 47% | LIE | 3 | What an impostor tries to sell |
| 47% | KEY | 3 | What you turn to start a car's ignition |
| 46% | DEAF | 4 | What Beethoven started to become in 1801 |
| 45% | SAG | 3 | What an old mattress may start to do |
| 45% | SAG | 3 | What an old sofa may start to do |
| 45% | BIRD | 4 | What gets this puzzle off to a flying start? |
| 43% | GETARAISE | 9 | Start to make more money, and what the circled letters do? |
| 42% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 42% | RAINBOW | 7 | What the starts of the answers to the seven starred clues constitute |
| 42% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 42% | ANAGRAMSOFNATIONNAMES | 21 | What the answers to the starred clues all start with |
| 42% | FOLLOWTHEBOUNCINGBALL | 21 | Karaoke instruction ... or what to do starting at 10-Down |
| 41% | DVDS | 4 | What Netflix plans to stop selling at the end of September |
| 41% | ACTION | 6 | What the director shouts to start filming |
| 40% | NUN | 3 | What Maria is planning to become at the start of "The Sound of Music" |
| 40% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 40% | WHITEHOUSEDOG | 13 | What the answer to each of the six starred clues starts with |
| 40% | ICE | 3 | What you might break to start a conversation? |
| 40% | ENTER | 5 | What's the key to getting from the end of a line to the start? |
| 39% | USEFOWLLANGUAGE | 15 | What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? |
| 38% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 38% | STEPONE | 7 | A good place to start |
| 38% | HITIT | 5 | Band's signal to start |
| 38% | EVENT | 5 | Occurrence in flat to start |
| 38% | RELATE | 6 | Tell clergyman not to start |
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| 38% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 38% | RETAILED | 8 | Sold to consumers |