| 100% | PICKPOCKET | 10 | "What should I do before I shoot the 8-ball, Tarzan?" |
| 44% | POSE | 4 | What you might do before getting shot |
| 42% | AIM | 3 | What a marksman does before shooting |
| 40% | AIM | 3 | Something you should do before you shoot |
| 39% | ROARED | 6 | What Leo the lion did before MGM movies |
| 38% | MATINEE | 7 | What an actor might do before the evening show |
| 38% | AIM | 3 | What a player from 1-Across would do before shooting |
| 37% | ELOPES | 6 | Skips the dos before the I do's? |
| 37% | PREPARE | 7 | What one should do for the worst |
| 37% | TAKEOUTFOOD | 11 | Alternative to home cooking, or what should be done to the answers with circles |
| 36% | RECAP | 5 | What my wife always demands that I do after using the toothpaste |
| 36% | MADE | 4 | "Look What You ___ Me Do" (Taylor Swift song from the album "Reputation") |
| 36% | DUCKBILL | 8 | "What should I do if they throw things, Hillary?" |
| 36% | MEASURE | 7 | What one should do twice before cutting once |
| 36% | OWE | 3 | "To what do I ___ the pleasure..." |
| 36% | OWE | 3 | "To what do I ___ the pleasure?" |
| 36% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 36% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 36% | SPRINGHASSPRUNG | 15 | What did the shot suspension say to the strut? |
| 36% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | PITS | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the ___?" (Erma Bombeck book) |
| 36% | ERMA | 4 | "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" writer Bombeck |
| 35% | REPEATAFTERME | 13 | "Do as I do," and a hint to what the circled letters do |
| 35% | BOWL | 4 | Salad holder ... or what medium pacers do with the ball in cricket |
| 35% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 35% | SURE | 4 | "Oh, what the hell ... I'll do it" |
| 35% | ISA | 3 | Erma Bombeck's "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | ISA | 3 | "If Life ___ Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?" (Erma Bombeck book): 2 wds. |
| 35% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 35% | BOSS | 4 | "You're the ___" ("Just tell me what to do") |