| 100% | WABE | 4 | "Did gyre and gimble in the ___": "Jabberwocky" |
| 81% | WABE | 4 | "... gyre and gimble in the __" (Carroll) |
| 64% | GYRE | 4 | "... ___ and gimble in the wabe" (Carroll) |
| 64% | GYRE | 4 | "... __ and gimble in the wabe" (Carroll) |
| 50% | GREASE | 6 | Danny and Sandy did the Hand Jive in this film |
| 49% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 49% | RAISEMONEY | 10 | Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 49% | DEER | 4 | Bucks and does, in the forest |
| 48% | BREAKUP | 7 | Split, and, in another way, what the starred answers do |
| 48% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 48% | AURAL | 5 | Like many exams done at the "Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary" in Boston |
| 47% | JUBJUBBIRD | 10 | Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll’s poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark |
| 47% | UPSETTHECHILDREN | 16 | ...and in so doing the klutz _____ |
| 47% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 47% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 47% | LOLA | 4 | The "she" in the lyric "She would merengue and do the cha-cha" |
| 47% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 46% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 46% | SHED | 4 | What many dogs do in the spring and fall |
| 46% | SHAREACAB | 9 | Split the taxi fare ... and what the words do in 18-, 24-, 39- and 55-Across |
| 46% | MAKEADENT | 9 | Scratch the surface, and what both words in 17-, 26-, 55- and 65-Across literally do |
| 46% | POLLINATION | 11 | Job done by the insects seen above the circled words in 17-, 26- and 50-Across |
| 46% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 46% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 46% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 46% | PLAYWITHMYFOOD | 14 | What I shouldn't do at the dinner table, except in 20-, 28-, and 44-Across? |
| 45% | TRE | 3 | Final album in the Green Day trilogy that includes "¡Uno!" and "¡Dos!" |
| 45% | JOINTVENTURE | 12 | "My colleagues and I will do some exploratory work on your knee, in a ___," said the rheumatologist |
| 45% | DOTTEDTHEIS | 11 | Attended to details, and what you've done in five places if you've completed the puzzle |
| 44% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |