| 100% | ONESTAR | 7 | What rating does the Michelin Guide give to "a very good restaurant"? |
| 43% | FIVESTARS | 9 | Rating given to the best hotels, restaurants |
| 39% | EVADES | 6 | Gives the slip to the good guys, much like Joaquin Guzman has done a couple of times |
| 36% | FIVESTAR | 8 | Rating given to the best hotels |
| 36% | REMOTE | 6 | A __ control tells the TV what to do |
| 36% | STOP | 4 | What a period tells the reader to do |
| 35% | NEST | 4 | What a pregnant woman does to prepare the nursery, colloquially |
| 35% | END | 3 | What you don't want a good show to do |
| 35% | STEAL | 5 | What a base runner might do to the next base |
| 35% | WEARIT | 6 | What to do "if the shoe fits," in a saying |
| 34% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 34% | RISE | 4 | What a bailiff tells people to do when the judge enters |
| 34% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 34% | COOL | 4 | What a baker may do to bring down the temperature of a cake |
| 33% | FLYLIKEANEAGLE | 14 | What the U.S. Postal Service used to do (ending in a two under) |
| 33% | REPEATAFTERME | 13 | "Do as I do," and a hint to what the circled letters do |
| 33% | BOO | 3 | What the crowd does to a bad performance |
| 32% | SPUN | 4 | What was done to the straw given to the miller's daughter to turn into gold |
| 32% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 32% | SKIPINTRO | 9 | Command to bypass a recap of prior episodes ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 32% | SOANDSO | 7 | Name better left unsaid, or a literal hint to what the starred answers contain |
| 32% | RATE | 4 | What critics might do to a movie by giving stars |
| 32% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 32% | RECOMMENDS | 10 | A good waiter usually does this to help a diner pair the right wine with the entree |
| 32% | ERODE | 5 | What the Colorado River will continue to do to the canyon for a few more zillion years |
| 32% | TIP | 3 | Given to a waiter when paying the bill |
| 32% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 32% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 32% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |