| 100% | REACH | 5 | ___ a verdict (what a jury needs to do) |
| 69% | ANTE | 4 | What you may need to do to get a hand |
| 63% | DRYOFF | 6 | What a bath towel is needed to do: 2 wds. |
| 60% | NOD | 3 | What a bobblehead appears to do |
| 60% | STIRTHEPOT | 10 | What a provocateur aims to do |
| 60% | EAT | 3 | What a foodie loves to do |
| 58% | TIE | 3 | What a kid learns to do to shoelaces |
| 57% | LIABILITY | 9 | What a company needs to pay; opposite of asset |
| 57% | CHEW | 4 | What a puppy likes to do to toys and socks |
| 56% | DIGESTS | 7 | What a stomach does to food |
| 56% | EATS | 4 | What a trencherman does to excess |
| 56% | HEAT | 4 | What a microwave does to food |
| 56% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 56% | VIOLIN | 6 | "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a ___; what else does a man need to be happy?": Albert Einstein |
| 56% | LIT | 3 | What a candle needs to be before it can shed light |
| 56% | AGREE | 5 | What double-checked totals need to do |
| 56% | FIT | 3 | What jigsaw puzzle pieces need to do |
| 56% | MILKS | 5 | What a dairymaid does to a cow |
| 56% | LAID | 4 | What a chicken did to an egg |
| 55% | POSE | 4 | What a photographer requires a model to do |
| 55% | PAY | 3 | What you need to do when buying something |
| 55% | OBEY | 4 | What a hypnotist may tell you to do |
| 55% | SELL | 4 | What a bearish stockbroker wants you to do |
| 55% | GEL | 3 | What you want a jam session to do |
| 55% | PAUSE | 5 | What a semicolon should cause you to do |
| 55% | STOP | 4 | What a period tells the reader to do |
| 55% | SMILE | 5 | What a photographer frequently tells people to do |
| 55% | END | 3 | What a boring meeting never seems to do |
| 55% | REFER | 5 | What a meta clue might do to itself |
| 55% | CATCH | 5 | What a baseball fielder might do to 34a |