| 100% | MEAN | 4 | "What do you ___by that?" (clarification) |
| 95% | MEAN | 4 | "What do you ___ by that?" |
| 77% | WHAT | 4 | "Just ___ do you mean by that?" |
| 72% | WONTGETFUELEDAGAIN | 18 | "Hey, what did you think when you missed that last pit stop?" [The Who, 1971] |
| 72% | FOR | 3 | "What did you do that ___?" |
| 72% | SAY | 3 | "What do you ___ to that?" |
| 70% | FOR | 3 | "What do you want to do that ___?" |
| 70% | TOW | 3 | What you would do to a car that has broken down |
| 69% | FIRE | 4 | Did you know that the book "___ from Heaven" by Mary Renault is about 44a's childhood? |
| 69% | PAYCOD | 6 | What you may have to do for goods bought by mail order |
| 68% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
| 68% | NORM | 4 | What do you expect? |
| 68% | IDEAS | 5 | What do you think? |
| 68% | REMARKS | 7 | What do you say? |
| 68% | POKE | 4 | What you might do to a turtle that's withdrawn into its shell |
| 67% | NACHO | 5 | "What do you call cheese that's not yours? ___ cheese!" |
| 66% | HUH | 3 | "___? What do you mean?" |
| 66% | REDHERRING | 10 | Literary device that probably doesn’t mean what you think it does |
| 66% | CHOP | 4 | "What do you call a pig that does karate? A pork ___!" |
| 66% | TOAD | 4 | "What do you call a frog that's illegally parked? A ___!" |
| 66% | LOOK | 4 | "___ What You Made Me Do," song by Taylor Swift |
| 66% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
| 65% | KNIT | 4 | What you hope your fibula does after the break caused by your lousy downhill skills |
| 65% | FOR | 3 | "What'd you do that ___?" |
| 65% | KNOW | 4 | "Well, what do you ___?!" |
| 65% | NACHO | 5 | "What do you call cheese that isn't yours? ___ cheese!" (dad joke) |
| 65% | WHISKER | 7 | "What do you call a cat that's good at baking? A ___!" |
| 65% | WATCH | 5 | "What do you call a dog that can read time? A ___ dog!" |
| 65% | DINO | 4 | *What do you call a T-Rex that likes fireworks? "A ___-mite!" |