| 100% | JENNY | 5 | Woman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | FOURQUARTERS | 12 | Change for a dollar, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | WILDFLOWERS | 11 | Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 51% | DEADEND | 7 | Like jobs with no future ... and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be? |
| 51% | FATHERFIGURES | 13 | Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | SINKORSWIM | 10 | Success-versus-failure metaphor, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 50% | FAILURETOLAUNCH | 15 | Rocket mishap, or what can be found at the start of the answer to each starred clue |
| 49% | ITSADEAL | 8 | "Agreed!" ... and what can be said about the start of the answers to starred clues |
| 48% | PRUNINGSHEARS | 13 | Hedge trimmer's tool, which seems to have been used on the starts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 48% | THATSAKEEPER | 12 | Happy cry on a fishing trip, and what can be said about the end of the answer to each starred clue? |
| 47% | JUGBAND | 7 | *Where the starts of the answers to the five starred clues can all be found |
| 46% | HANDSDOWN | 9 | Without a doubt ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues are? |
| 46% | PENNAMES | 8 | Writers' aliases, and what are found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | SANS | 4 | Without ... or, as a plural, what the starts of the answers to starred clues are without? |
| 46% | AHOPSKIPANDAJUMP | 16 | Trivial distance, or what can be paired, in order, with the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 46% | EYEOPENER | 9 | Shock to the system, and what the start of each answer to a starred clue can be |
| 46% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 45% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 45% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 45% | OURGANG | 7 | Old group of movie kids that, in a way, the answers to starred clues could be a member of |
| 45% | DOGTAGS | 7 | Military IDs on chains, and what can be found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 45% | TRAILHEADS | 10 | Hikers' starting points ... or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can be? |
| 44% | AHEADOF | 7 | Leading, or, when parsed differently, what can lead into the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 44% | ONTHELINE | 9 | In jeopardy ... and where the first words of the answers to starred clues can be found |
| 44% | MIXEDSALAD | 10 | Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is? |
| 44% | TWOTRUTHSANDALIE | 16 | Ice-breaker activity involving three claims, or what the starts of the answers to the starred clues literally are |
| 43% | MAGAZINES | 9 | What the starts of the answers to the eight starred clues are |
| 43% | PRESIDENTSDAY | 13 | February occasion, some of whose honorees can be found in the answers to the five starred clues |
| 43% | TERRIERMIX | 10 | Hybrid dog breed, literal examples of which can be found in the answers to the starred clues |
| 43% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | Reason for a courtroom objection, and what the start of the answer to each starred clue has |