| 100% | PANDA | 5 | World Wildlife Fund logo ... or a three-word hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 64% | STOMP | 5 | Walk heavily, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | RAFTERS | 7 | Ceiling beams, or a three-word hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 63% | ATHENS | 6 | Capital of Greece, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 59% | TRITE | 5 | Banal, or a three-part hint for the answers to the starred clues |
| 59% | LETTERDROP | 10 | Opening at the post office ... or, when read as three words, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | MIDTERM | 7 | Kind of exam, with a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 58% | TWOCANPLAY | 10 | With 28-Down, words to a cheater ... or an honest hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 58% | THIS | 4 | With 64-Across, NBC drama ... or, in four parts, a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 58% | INITIALREACTION | 15 | Off-the-cuff response … and a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 57% | WITHORWITHOUTYOU | 16 | First Billboard #1 hit for U2 ... and a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 56% | CRYUNCLE | 8 | Concede ... or a hint to the last words of the answers to starred clues |
| 56% | CHECKPLEASE | 11 | Words to a server ... or a hint to the first words of the answers to starred clues |
| 56% | FRIENDSTOTHEEND | 15 | True buds, and a hint to the last three or four letters of each starred answer |
| 55% | ALLABOARD | 9 | Train conductor's cry … or a hint to each word in the answers to the starred clues |
| 55% | ANIMALHOUSE | 11 | 1978 John Belushi movie, and a hint to the first three or four letters of the starred answers |
| 55% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |
| 55% | CHUCKBERRY | 10 | One of the original Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, whose name is a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 54% | MIDDLEEAST | 10 | World hot spot ... or a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 54% | PARAPHRASES | 11 | Puts in other words, or, if read as three pieces, a hint to the starred answers |
| 54% | JUSTADDWATER | 12 | Simple recipe instruction ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 54% | BACKSTORY | 9 | Fictional past, or a hint to four-letter words found in the starred answers |
| 54% | ATALOSSFORWORDS | 15 | Dumbfounded ... or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 53% | BIRDSANDBEES | 12 | Subject of "the talk" about sex … or a hint to the answers to the four starred clues |
| 53% | SHREDDEDWHEAT | 13 | Breakfast cereal ... or a hint to what's found in the answers to the four starred clues? |
| 53% | HANDYDANDY | 10 | *Very convenient ... or, when read in six parts, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | TIMEISMONEY | 11 | Benjamin Franklin adage ... or a hint to interpreting the answers to the four starred clues |
| 53% | ADHOMINEM | 9 | Kind of fallacious argument … or, phonetically, a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 53% | READALOUD | 9 | *Woodwind permitted, say ... or a hint to sounding out the answers to the starred clues? |
| 53% | SUNRISESUNSET | 13 | Classic Broadway show tune, or a hint to the word ladder revealed by the answers to the eight starred clues |