| 100% | EXTRACT | 7 | With 4-Down, how to make the seven starred clues match their answers? |
| 69% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 58% | SHOWTHEWAY | 10 | Give clear directions, or how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 58% | DROPIN | 6 | Stop by unannounced, and how to make the starred clues match their answers? |
| 58% | NOHESITATION | 12 | "Proceed with confidence!," and how to make the answers to 20-, 31-, and 43-Across match their clues |
| 55% | TRADEMARKS | 10 | Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues |
| 48% | SKIPTOWN | 8 | Run off … or how to make the answers to 17-, 21-, 34-, 44- and 53-Across fit their clues |
| 47% | TAKEALETTER | 11 | Dictator's order, and how to make sense of the answers to the starred clues, in two ways |
| 47% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Decorate for Christmas, in a way, and how to make sense of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 46% | BYEBYEBIRDIE | 12 | Musical with the song "Put On a Happy Face," and a hint to making four answers match their starred clues |
| 46% | PESSIMIST | 9 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Down clues |
| 46% | ONTHEEDGE | 9 | Exciting but dangerous way to live, and a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 44% | NEAT | 4 | How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 44% | YOUHADTOBETHERE | 15 | "It was even funnier at the time," or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers |
| 43% | ITGOESWITHOUTSAYING | 19 | "We all see the obvious here, right?," and how to make six long answers in this puzzle match their clues? |
| 41% | EVENSOUT | 8 | Balances, or, phonetically, how to make 18-, 32-, and 39-Across match their clues? |
| 41% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |
| 40% | OLYMPIC | 7 | With 51-Down, where to find parts of the starred answers interlocking, as suggested by their positions in the grid |
| 40% | TODOLIST | 8 | Agenda ... or, together, what the seven starred clues and their answers constitute? |
| 39% | IRISHCOUNTIES | 13 | What the answers to the seven starred clues all are or contain |
| 39% | DEBUG | 5 | Work on software, and work to make sense of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 39% | BAA | 3 | Lamb's sound ... which must be "silenced" to make sense of the starred clues' answers |
| 39% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 39% | INNER | 5 | With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 39% | LETSGOYANKEES | 13 | Cheer heard in the Bronx, or a phonetic hint for making the starred clues match their answers |
| 39% | SETIN | 5 | With 59-Down, permanent ... or, literally, a feature of the answers to the seven starred clues |
| 38% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 38% | BEACHGOER | 9 | One packing up the answers to the seven starred clues, maybe |
| 38% | PHASER | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | RAYGUN | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |