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| 48% | HELM | 4 | What Sulu used to handle on the Enterprise |
| 46% | UPKEY | 5 | What's used to scroll to the top of a window |
| 46% | NET | 3 | What the Flying Wallendas refuse to use |
| 44% | RUTHLESSTACTICS | 15 | What the Red Sox had to start using in 1920? |
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| 44% | PAW | 3 | What a boxer uses to hit the ground? |
| 44% | COPPERCOIN | 10 | What the penny used to be |
| 43% | GETEVEN | 7 | Settle the score |
| 43% | GETSEVEN | 8 | Settles the score |
| 43% | ABSTRACTART | 11 | What may be created using the answers to the six starred clues? |
| 43% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 42% | OLDSCORES | 9 | What the vengeful seek to settle |
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| 42% | FIN | 3 | What a fish uses to steer through the water |
| 42% | SAES | 4 | What freelancers used to enclose if they really wanted the job, before the Internet age, of course (abbr.) |
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| 41% | EVEN | 4 | Having settled the score |
| 40% | AVENGE | 6 | Settle the score, say (anagram of "geneva") |
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