| 100% | CUTTHATOUT | 10 | "Stop!" ... or what you do to 18-, 24-, 40- and 54-Across |
| 57% | BREAK | 5 | Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 54% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 49% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 49% | GEEWHIZ | 7 | Beaver Cleaver expletive ... or what you might need to be to answer 18-, 23-, 51- and 60-Across? |
| 48% | ALTEREGO | 8 | Secondary identity ... or what can be found in 18-, 27-, 40-, 54- and 66-Across |
| 48% | FRAMEWORK | 9 | Basic structure, or what a 19-, 24-, 40-, and 52-Across do? |
| 47% | TAPS | 4 | Bugle tune ... or what one does to 1-, 18-, 35-, 43- and 62-Across |
| 47% | BREAKFAST | 9 | Free motel offering nowadays ... or what 18-, 26-, 40- and 52-Across do? |
| 46% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive an audition, and what one may do to the start of 18-, 23-, 36-, or 54-Across? |
| 45% | PUTTHESQUEEZEON | 15 | Coerce, or what can be done to 18-, 23-, 52-, and 58-Across |
| 45% | UPSDELIVERY | 11 | Package on the porch ... or what's been brought to 18-, 24-, 41- and 51-Across |
| 44% | ANIFORANEYE | 11 | Misinterpretation of a biblical code ... or the key to answering 18-, 24-, 40- and 51-Across |
| 44% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 43% | CAST | 4 | Throw, and what you can do to the first words of 17-, 24-, 39-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 43% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 43% | TAKEASWING | 10 | Try to hit, or what one can do with the ends of 18-, 26- and 47-Across |
| 43% | TAKEITTOTHEBANK | 15 | "Believe you me!" ... or what you can do with the start of 18-, 24-, 53- or 63-Across? |
| 42% | ONE | 3 | Addition to 18-, 23-, 40-, 54- and 60-Across |
| 42% | PLAYINGWITHFIRE | 15 | Doing something risky ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 42% | FUSEBOXES | 9 | Electrical panels found in older homes … or what 18-, 24-, 35- and 53-Across do (regarding each half of each answer)? |
| 42% | LGBTQ | 5 | Modern movement initialism ... or a hint to the starts of 18-, 24-, 40-, 52- and 61-Across |
| 42% | ONA | 3 | With 60-Across, doing great ... or where to find 18-, 24-, 35-, 51- and 57-Across? |
| 42% | SHOWSOMELEG | 11 | Not dress overmodestly ... or what 18-, 25- and 43-Across each do? |
| 42% | ASHOTINTHEDARK | 14 | Wild guess … or what 19-, 24- and 41-Across let you take? |
| 42% | CREATEDAMONSTER | 15 | Emulated Dr. Frankenstein ... or what you did after you filled in the shaded parts of 17-, 23-, 50- and 61-Across? |
| 42% | OPENFORBUSINESS | 15 | Sign outside a new store, or what the first words of 18-, 24-, 52-, and 59-Across can do? |
| 41% | MAKEASCENE | 10 | Be disruptive, or what you can do with the ends of 17-, 25-, 35- and 51-Across |
| 41% | STAKEOUT | 8 | Police operation ... or, when read another way, what a grammarian would like to do to 18-, 24-, 52- and 65-Across? |
| 41% | PET | 3 | Furry friend, or what you might do to one |