| 100% | PTICKETROUNDTRI | 15 | What this answer seems to have |
| 62% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 61% | FOURVOWELS | 10 | What this answer has |
| 56% | ENDLESSLOV | 10 | Lionel Richie song, or what this answer has |
| 56% | PARTIALCREDI | 12 | Teacher's allocation, or what this answer has |
| 55% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 55% | TOPS | 4 | With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have |
| 53% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 53% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 53% | ITSINTHEBAG | 11 | "We have this won" ... or what could be said about each of the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | INITIALINITIALS | 15 | What the answers to the 15 starred clues have |
| 50% | WIDER | 5 | What I seem to have gotten as the years have passed by |
| 50% | ELVES | 5 | What the answer to each of the starred clues has |
| 49% | HIGHTEA | 7 | British afternoon tradition, and what this puzzle's four longest answers literally have? |
| 49% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 49% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |
| 49% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 48% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 48% | RAISEDTHEBAR | 12 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? |
| 48% | LCIRCLECOMESFUL | 15 | What this answer does |
| 48% | TENLETTERS | 10 | What this answer is |
| 48% | THREEWORDPHRASE | 15 | What this answer is |
| 48% | GOESDOWN | 8 | What this answer does? |
| 48% | RUNSACROSS | 10 | What this answer does? |
| 48% | WOODYALLENFILMS | 15 | What the answers to starred clues are (their creator turned 85 this month) |
| 48% | CUTFROMTHESAMECLOTH | 19 | Having similar qualities ... or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle are? |
| 48% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Brief moment, or what three long answers in this puzzle have? |
| 48% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Hint to what the other nine longest answers have in common |
| 47% | TTOPS | 5 | Features of some sports cars, and what this puzzle's four longest answers have in common |