| 100% | SUV | 3 | What each clue asterisk indicates in the answer |
| 62% | NBA | 3 | Org. found in the answer to each asterisked clue |
| 55% | CENTERPIECE | 11 | Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? |
| 52% | FIREANDRAIN | 11 | James Taylor classic ... or, respectively, what can precede the two words in each answer to a starred clue |
| 52% | DIGIT | 5 | What each number in the starred clues represents |
| 51% | GEM | 3 | There's one hidden in the answer to each starred clue |
| 51% | TSE | 3 | Literary monogram found in the answers to the nine asterisked clues |
| 50% | STATE | 5 | With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue |
| 50% | CALLSITLIKEITIS | 15 | What each asterisked clue's answer does, to correct a misnomer? |
| 50% | TRUCKDRIVER | 11 | What each of the answers to the starred clues once was |
| 50% | DRINK | 5 | What each of the four long answers in this puzzle is |
| 49% | SIGHTRHYME | 10 | What the answer to each capitalized clue is |
| 49% | POKERHAND | 9 | What the answer to each starred clue is |
| 49% | TWISTOFLEMON | 12 | Drink garnish ... or a hint to five letters in the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 49% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 49% | THINGSWITHWINGS | 15 | What the answers to all the asterisked clues are |
| 48% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 48% | SHAKESPEAREPLAY | 15 | What the film answering each starred clue was inspired by |
| 48% | BACK | 4 | What can start each word within the starred clues' answers |
| 48% | PENNAMES | 8 | What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways |
| 48% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 48% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |
| 48% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | MATE | 4 | Aussie pal, or what can follow each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | FINALSCORE | 10 | Game-ending result ... or what each of the answers to starred clues has? |
| 47% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 47% | NUT | 3 | What's ''cracked'' in each of the four star-paired answers |
| 47% | BOND | 4 | What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
| 47% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |