| 100% | UPSELL | 6 | What the clues for 4-, 8-, 10-, 28- and 39-Down are trying to do, and what their answers feature |
| 46% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 43% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 41% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 40% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 40% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 40% | YOUTHGROUP | 10 | Ministry community for religious teens, and what the answer to each starred clue can be called |
| 39% | EGOBOOSTS | 9 | Lifts for one's self-esteem, and what's been given to the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | PALINDROMES | 11 | What the answers to the starred clues all are when their first and last letters are removed |
| 39% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 39% | COATTAILS | 9 | Features of some formal jackets, and what the ends of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 38% | ANOTHERROUND | 12 | Best International Feature Oscar winner in 2021 ... and what's been added to the starred clues' answers |
| 38% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 38% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 38% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |
| 38% | SEALEDWITHAKISS | 15 | Love letter message often accompanied by a lipstick mark, and what the answers to the starred clues are, thanks to their circled letters |
| 38% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | FOOTBRIDGE | 10 | Stream crossing for pedestrians ... and what is literally provided by the interior letters in the answers to starred clues |
| 37% | TAINTEDLOVE | 11 | 1981 Top 10 hit for Soft Cell, and a feature of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 37% | THATSANORDER | 12 | "Do it now!," and what can be said about the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 36% | DOUBLEDATES | 11 | Two-couple outings ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 36% | REARENDED | 9 | Hit from behind ... and what the answers to starred clues are? |
| 36% | PAIROFPANTS | 11 | Trousers, and what the answer to each starred clue literally is |
| 36% | BREAKASTORY | 11 | What an investigative journalist might do, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 36% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Word that must be added to 1-, 8-, 65- and 66-Across for their clues to make sense [with a visual hint in the grid] |
| 36% | CUTTHECARBS | 11 | Dieting advice, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 36% | TREEHUGGERS | 11 | Nature lovers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 36% | FULLOFBEANS | 11 | Completely wrong, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are? |
| 36% | FILLEDWITHJOY | 13 | Feeling euphoric, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are |