100% | BETTER | 6 | "Do the best you can until you know ___...," motivating quote by Maya Angelou |
37% | HUM | 3 | What you can do if you don't know the words |
36% | WHY | 3 | "I Know ___ the Caged Bird Sings," 1969 autobiography by Maya Angelou that recounts her early years |
36% | RUNSTHEGOODRACE | 15 | Does the best one can |
36% | STAB | 4 | You could take this in the dark if you didn't know any better |
36% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
35% | EGOIDEAL | 8 | The best you can be, Freudian-style |
35% | FIRE | 4 | Did you know that the book "___ from Heaven" by Mary Renault is about 44a's childhood? |
35% | SMILE | 5 | "We shall never know all the good that a simple ___ can do": Mother Teresa |
35% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |
35% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
35% | CHOLULA | 7 | Did you know? The Great Pyramid of ___ located in Mexico is the world's largest pyramid by volume |
34% | BAREMINIMUM | 11 | The least you can do |
34% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
34% | NORMAL | 6 | "If you are always trying to be ___, you will never know how amazing you can be": Maya Angelou |
33% | HARRIET | 7 | Did you know that the world's largest 1a was believed to have been lain by the British hen ___ in 2010? |
33% | HAL | 3 | Film character who says menacingly "I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do" |
33% | ARTHUR | 6 | Film with the Oscar-winning song "Best That You Can Do" |
33% | BEST | 4 | "___ That You Can Do," song from the movie "Arthur" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1981 |
33% | IMNO | 4 | "You Know ___ Good," a hit by the late Amy Winehouse |
33% | KYRA | 4 | Sedgwick of the 2025 film "The Best You Can" |
33% | FEEL | 4 | What good art can make you do |
33% | BAREMINIMUM | 11 | It's the least you can do |
32% | CAGEDBIRD | 9 | Maya Angelou knows why the __ sings |
32% | HOUSEWINE | 9 | You can buy it by the glass |
32% | ADSPACE | 7 | You can buy it by the inch |
32% | ARTHUR | 6 | 1981 Moore/Minnelli film with the Oscar-winning song "Best That You Can Do" |
32% | STARTREKII | 10 | Movie in which Ricardo Montalban says, "Kirk, my old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb ... 'Revenge is a dish best served cold'?" |
31% | TOPTHAT | 7 | "See if you can do better!" |
31% | TOPTHIS | 7 | "See if you can do better!" |