| 100% | EYES | 4 | What some teachers claim to have in the backs of their heads |
| 43% | EYES | 4 | "He has ___ in the back of his head" |
| 41% | OPLACETOGO | 10 | What some of the letters in this puzzle seemingly have |
| 38% | PARSECS | 7 | Han Solo claims to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 of these |
| 38% | COLDPLAY | 8 | Band who had a Rush of Blood to the Head in 2002 |
| 37% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 36% | RETINAL | 7 | Related to nerves in the back of the eye |
| 35% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 35% | SENSES | 6 | Some claim to have six of them |
| 35% | WED | 3 | What to do in the "Chapel of Love" |
| 35% | STOP | 4 | What to do in the name of love? |
| 35% | BACKFIRE | 8 | To have the opposite effect of what was intended |
| 35% | HAS | 3 | "She ___ eyes in the back of her head" |
| 34% | ART | 3 | What we have "in order not to die of the truth," per Nietzsche |
| 34% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 34% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 34% | SLINGSHOT | 9 | What some of the black squares in the grid might represent |
| 34% | OCCIPITAL | 9 | Pertaining to the back of the head |
| 34% | CEPHALIC | 8 | Of, in, or relating to the head |
| 33% | CATS | 4 | 2019 flop whose Variety review began "Nine may not be enough lives for some of the stars to live down their involvement in this …" |
| 33% | HANSOLO | 7 | He claimed to have "made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs" |
| 33% | ENDNOTES | 8 | What some scholarly texts (and the 10-Downs to all the starred clues) have |
| 33% | AOL | 3 | Internet company estimated to have mailed millions of CDs in the nineties |
| 33% | SCHOOL | 6 | In some places, the kids go back to __ in autumn |
| 33% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 33% | HALO | 4 | What Judas lacks in some paintings of the Last Supper |
| 33% | RUTHLESSTACTICS | 15 | What the Red Sox had to start using in 1920? |
| 33% | EYES | 4 | What the giant Argus has 100 of, in Greek myth |
| 33% | BUTTONS | 7 | What the Other Mother has instead of eyes in "Coraline" |
| 32% | WONGKARWAI | 10 | “In the Mood for Love” director who controversially reëdited some of his films prior to their Criterion Collection box-set release |