| 100% | SANSA | 5 | Winterfell character on "Game of Thrones" ... or, if you change the fourth letter to T, a wintertime character |
| 53% | BRADS | 5 | Fasteners ... or, if you change the fourth letter to an S, what the fasteners might be made of |
| 52% | SNORT | 5 | Pig's sound, or a pig's body part if you change the fourth letter to a U |
| 42% | WRISTS | 6 | Body parts that become other body parts if you change the second letter to an A |
| 41% | IRAN | 4 | Country whose name becomes another country if you change the last letter to a Q |
| 40% | ALBEN | 5 | Truman veep Barkley whose name sounds like a musical record if you change the last letter to an "m" |
| 36% | MUD | 3 | Kind of pie, or change a letter in 18d to get the answer |
| 35% | FRUIT | 5 | What you get if you change the first letter in "demon," "dime" or "drape"? |
| 35% | WORD | 4 | Part of a sentence, or change a letter in 22a to get the answer |
| 35% | EXTRACT | 7 | Remove, or, if you put a space after the fifth letter, a feature of five of this puzzle's Across answers |
| 34% | EMIL | 4 | Man's name that becomes a distance if you move the first letter to the end |
| 34% | SNOW | 4 | Jon ___, "Game of Thrones" character whose name features something you may see on the Alps |
| 34% | CREEL | 5 | Fishing basket, or a fishing rod spool if you ignore the first letter |
| 34% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 33% | ALAN | 4 | Boy's name that becomes a girl's name if you move the first letter to the end |
| 33% | OLEG | 4 | Man's name that becomes a popular toy brand if you move the first letter to the end |
| 33% | ENOS | 4 | Biblical man's name that becomes a body part if you move the first letter to the end |
| 33% | STATE | 5 | 5-Across or 8-Across, if you change the T's in this answer |
| 33% | ERIC | 4 | Name that becomes a grain if you move its first letter to the end |
| 33% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 33% | RAM | 3 | Zodiac animal that spells another if you change its last letter to "t" |
| 33% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | IHOP | 4 | Commercial name that becomes a Native American tribe if you move its first letter to the end |
| 32% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 32% | BOOT | 4 | Change a letter to get the body part it goes on |
| 32% | FOE | 3 | A Stark, to a Lannister, on "Game of Thrones" |
| 32% | SHOOTING | 8 | The type of star you're told to make a wish on |
| 32% | NED | 3 | ___ Stark, character from Winterfell on "Game of Thrones" |
| 32% | WIN | 3 | "When you play the game of thrones, you ___ or you die" |
| 32% | SETSSTRAIGHT | 12 | Disabuses of false notions … or a hint to the circled letters |