| 100% | USETHEON/OFFSWITCH | 18 | Add light, or not (and do this 13 more times to solve this puzzle) |
| 47% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 43% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 42% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 41% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Brain trust, and what you need to add to solve 16 clues in this puzzle |
| 41% | PASSNOTES | 9 | Furtively communicate in class, or what you need to do seven times in this puzzle |
| 40% | CUTOUTTHE | 9 | With 58-Across, buy or sell direct ... or what to do in this puzzle three times? |
| 40% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 40% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |
| 40% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 39% | CROPROTATION | 12 | Common farming technique ... or a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 39% | AIRLIFTS | 8 | Some special deliveries, and a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 39% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | AIM | 3 | Donald Trump had to fire people many times between 2008 and 2015, but fortunately he never had to do this |
| 38% | CHANGETHESUBJECT | 16 | Switch topics, and a hint to solving this puzzle's theme answers |
| 38% | PARESDOWN | 9 | Gradually trims … or a phonetic second hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | THECASCADES | 11 | Range that's home to 18-Across, and a hint to solving this puzzle |
| 37% | DOWN | 4 | Look ___ (advice on how to solve this puzzle contest, assuming you're not solving on paper) |
| 37% | ZHUZHEDITUP | 11 | Added panache, as was done three times in this puzzle? |
| 36% | POPINJAYS | 9 | Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) |
| 36% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 36% | BURYTHE | 7 | With 43-Down, make peace ... or what you must do to complete this puzzle? |
| 36% | WORKOUTTHEBUGS | 14 | Gradually fix something ... or what to do to understand this puzzle's italicized clues? |
| 36% | CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR | 15 | Not quite right ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 36% | KNOCKOUTGAS | 11 | Incapacitating agent of pulp detective and sci-fi novels ... and a hint to solving this puzzle's starred clues |
| 35% | DROPZONE | 8 | Certain delivery location, and a hint to solving six answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | BLACKFRIDAY | 11 | Time of annual madness ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 35% | REVERSECOURSE | 13 | Do the opposite, and a punny hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 35% | UNDERTHEWEATHER | 15 | Not up to par ... or, aptly, what this puzzle's circled letters are |
| 35% | BREAKBREAD | 10 | Have a meal ... or, literally, what this puzzle does four times |