| 100% | COP | 3 | Your role in this puzzle [the asterisked clues will help you crack the case] |
| 42% | LEWISCARROLL | 12 | Writer who was the source of all the words with asterisked clues in this puzzle |
| 41% | MAIL | 4 | (1/6) This service will deliver your letter ... once you've written it with the help of this puzzle! |
| 38% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 38% | ABBR | 4 | Clue hint used four times in this puzzle (but can't be used here because it would give away the answer) |
| 38% | LIE | 3 | "This is not the last clue in this puzzle," e.g. |
| 38% | JAZZ | 4 | With 68-Across, what the trio in this puzzle's clues is trying to promote |
| 37% | HLMFFWVDMRV | 11 | Title for this puzzle ... which the answers to the eight starred clues will help explain |
| 37% | LASTLETTERS | 11 | Explanatory information about this puzzle is revealed by reading these in the clues |
| 36% | SPAN | 4 | [The clue for this answer is hidden elsewhere in this puzzle] |
| 36% | WEAR | 4 | (The clue for this answer is hiding elsewhere in this puzzle ...) |
| 36% | MOUNTAINHIGHVALLEYLOW | 21 | Classic song with the repeated line "If you need me, I will be nearby" ... shown symbolically in this puzzle |
| 36% | ENTER | 5 | Key that, if you press it right now, will focus the cursor on the next entry in this puzzle |
| 36% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 36% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 36% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 35% | YOUCOMPLETEME | 13 | Something you might say to your darling ... or to the letters D-A-R-L-I-N-G in this puzzle |
| 35% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 35% | CORPORATEMERGER | 15 | Business acquisition ... or a hint to how the answers to the starred clues in this puzzle were formed? |
| 35% | CLOCKWISE | 9 | How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across |
| 35% | GLUEDTOTHETV | 12 | Where your eyes might stay during a suspenseful scene … or the only place you'll find the "eyes" in this puzzle |
| 35% | CONSONANT | 9 | The beginning of every clue in this puzzle |
| 34% | ELEVEN | 6 | The number of clues in this puzzle minus one |
| 33% | TWENTYNINTHOFFEBRUARY | 21 | When the people featured in this puzzle were born |
| 33% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 33% | IRAS | 4 | Vehicles that will help you in the future, specially if left just sitting there |
| 33% | FLIPFLOPPED | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 33% | MOVEDAROUND | 11 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 33% | OUTOFORDER | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |
| 33% | REARRANGED | 10 | Like the clues in all the words in this puzzle |