| 100% | STATE | 5 | With 59-Across, necessary substitutions, phonetically, for understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | WRAP | 4 | With 61-Down, "Get a move on!" and an instruction for the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | SUPERBOWL | 9 | With 26 Across, memorable spots created by the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | OPTIMIST | 8 | One who identifies with the answers to the starred Across clues |
| 54% | HIDE | 4 | With 73-Across, space-saving furniture, and what the answers to the starred clues each do |
| 53% | ENDIN | 5 | Conclude with, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 53% | FOURTEEN | 8 | With 61-Across, what President Wilson proposed for a lasting peace ... or what's missing from the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | BRITA | 5 | With 73-Across, insert for some water pitchers, or what has been used row-by-row on the answers to the starred clues? |
| 52% | FALSE | 5 | With 68-Across, sprinter's infraction, or what the answer to each starred clue has |
| 52% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 51% | RIGHTYTIGHTY | 12 | With 36-Across, mnemonic device for turning 54-Across … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | CANADA | 6 | Place associated with the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | STRINGSATTACHED | 15 | What the answers to the starred clues come with |
| 50% | SKIPSCHOOL | 10 | Emulate Ferris Bueller ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | ONE | 3 | With 32-Across, what the answers to the starred clues each have |
| 50% | ABC | 3 | Kind of order for the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | ANAGRAMSOFNATIONNAMES | 21 | What the answers to the starred clues all start with |
| 50% | ISLANDHOPPING | 13 | Yachter's itinerary, maybe ... or a hint to understanding the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | SWISSARMY | 9 | With 60-Across, contraption that usually includes the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | CAJUN | 5 | Cuisine with [circled letters], whose ingredients are the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | TEASEUP | 7 | Give height, as a hairdo ... or a hint for entering the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | GODOWNIN | 8 | With 47-Down, fail spectacularly ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 49% | EYEOPENERS | 10 | Startling revelations, or what the answers to the starred clues have, phonetically |
| 49% | SCRAMBLED | 9 | With 105-Across, what the answer to each starred clue starts with |
| 49% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 49% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | TEASEOUT | 8 | Untangle carefully, and a phonetic hint for the answers to the starred clues? |
| 49% | ALLIN | 5 | With 35- and 37-Across, how to answer the starred clues |
| 49% | INNER | 5 | With 60-Down, what the answer to each starred clue has |