| 100% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 75% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 43% | BREAK | 5 | With 65-Across, go against the group ... or what the circled squares literally do in the answers to the starred clues |
| 43% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 40% | HALF | 4 | With 38- and 40-Across, grocery purchase ... or what can be found in some other Across answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 39% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |
| 39% | SEE | 3 | With 46-Across, be angry ... or what you can do inside the answers to the six starred clues |
| 39% | WILDHORSES | 10 | 1971 Stones hit, or what can be found in the answers to starred clues |
| 39% | MESSYBUNS | 9 | Casual updos, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 38% | TOPNOTES | 8 | Initial perfume scents, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | GARDENVARIETY | 13 | Run-of-the-mill, or what can be found in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 38% | HALFTHEBATTLE | 13 | Important part of an undertaking . . . or what can be found in eight of this puzzle’s answers? |
| 38% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 37% | TURNINGPALE | 11 | Losing color, or what can literally be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 37% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 36% | FLIP | 4 | With 65-Across, part of a record ... or what each of this puzzle's five long Across answers has? |
| 36% | BUBBLESUP | 9 | Rises to the top, or what can be found in this puzzle? |
| 35% | OPENHOUSE | 9 | Realtor's big day ... or what each word in the answers to the starred clues can do |
| 35% | TURNSOFPHRASE | 13 | Distinctive ways to express things, or what four pairs of answers in this puzzle could be said to constitute |
| 35% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 35% | CREW | 4 | With 65-Across, private dos, and a hint to this puzzle's five theme answers |
| 35% | COMPACTCARS | 11 | Easy-to-park vehicles ... or what can be found four times in this puzzle |
| 34% | LIEUNDEROATH | 12 | Perjure oneself ... or what can be found six times in this puzzle |
| 34% | SMALLPOTATOES | 13 | Insignificant thing, or what can be found four times in this puzzle |
| 34% | CORNERSTONE | 11 | Architectural marker, or what can be found four times in this puzzle |
| 34% | COMPRESSEDAIR | 13 | Gas station supply ... or what can be found eight times in this puzzle? |
| 34% | PUTTHESQUEEZEON | 15 | Coerce, or what can be done to 18-, 23-, 52-, and 58-Across |
| 34% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 34% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |