| 100% | SARCASM | 7 | Yeah, like you're going to get the answer from just the tone of this clue |
| 39% | BENTOUT | 7 | With 86-Down, very upset ... like the answers to five of this puzzle's clues? |
| 38% | REDSHIFTED | 10 | Like light from stars moving away from us ... or like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 37% | PARTANIMAL | 10 | Like a centaur or faun ... or a hint to the answer to each of this puzzle's starred clues |
| 37% | EGOCENTRIC | 10 | Like someone who only has I's for you? ... or an apt description of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL | 15 | "We were just talking about you!" and a hint to the first words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | ABYSS | 5 | You'll never get to the bottom of this |
| 36% | HALFBAKED | 9 | Like the answers to this puzzle's 12 asterisked clues? |
| 36% | DOWN | 4 | Like the answer to this clue |
| 35% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | STARSTUDDED | 11 | Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? |
| 35% | SPUNAROUND | 10 | Like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 35% | HAIRCUT | 7 | Go to the barber shop to get one of these |
| 35% | GET | 3 | Figure out, like the answer to this clue |
| 35% | TWO | 3 | Number of times you'll need to read the starred clues to make sense of their answers |
| 34% | GREEN | 5 | Like the starts of the answers to the six starred clues |
| 34% | NOUN | 4 | Part of speech of the answer to this clue |
| 34% | TWO | 3 | Number of consonants in the answer to this clue |
| 34% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 34% | ACROSS | 6 | How the answer to this clue goes in the grid |
| 34% | SEWEDUP | 7 | Fixed, like the ends of the answers to starred clues |
| 34% | ESP | 3 | It would allow you to know the answer to this clue without even reading it |
| 34% | THEOTHERAMERICA | 15 | Read the first letter in each clue to get a quote from this '67 speech |
| 33% | THREEPEATS | 10 | Features of the answers to starred clues, from a trademarked sports term |
| 33% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 33% | TWISTTOPS | 9 | Easy-to-remove caps ... or one way to get the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 33% | BILATERAL | 9 | With 46-Across, feature of the answers to this puzzle's six starred clues, in a sense |
| 33% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of this clue |
| 33% | PRIME | 5 | Like the number of this clue |
| 33% | EVEN | 4 | Like the number of this clue |