| 100% | STATECAPITALS | 13 | What the answers to the starred clues are each anagrams of |
| 81% | TRUCKDRIVER | 11 | What each of the answers to the starred clues once was |
| 79% | TAKETHEWRONGWAY | 15 | Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 78% | OOHS | 4 | Cries of delight, and what each of the answers to the starred clues literally are? |
| 78% | ROUGHPATCH | 10 | Difficult time, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 78% | DEADEND | 7 | Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 78% | TWOSUITER | 9 | Piece of carry-on luggage, and what the answer to each starred clue literally is |
| 77% | INNERGODDESS | 12 | Divine feminine energy, and what can be found in each of the answers to the starred clues |
| 76% | POKERHAND | 9 | What the answer to each starred clue is |
| 76% | THISISPOINTLESS | 15 | “Why even bother?” . . . or what can be said of the answer to each starred clue |
| 75% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 75% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 75% | PETPROJECTS | 11 | Labors of love, perhaps, and what the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 74% | BIGPICTURE | 10 | Long view ... or what the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 73% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 73% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Ordinary ... or what the beginning of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 73% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Statistical achievement in basketball ... or what the answer to each starred clue is |
| 72% | CLOSECALL | 9 | Narrow escape ... or what the end of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 72% | CATCHPHRASE | 11 | Popular expression ... or what the opposite of the answer to each starred clue is? |
| 72% | PAIROFPANTS | 11 | Trousers, and what the answer to each starred clue literally is |
| 72% | THATWASNTON | 11 | With 70-Down, "Never would've predicted this scenario," and what can be said about the first word of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 71% | RUNNINGMATE | 11 | Vice presidential hopeful, and what the first part of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| 71% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 71% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | Things to "see" in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? |
| 70% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 70% | COPYRIGHT | 9 | Protection of intellectual property, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has |
| 70% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 70% | HEADSTART | 9 | Racer's advantage ... and what each part of the answers to starred clues can be |
| 70% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 70% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |