| 100% | SEARCH | 6 | AltaVista could do this in the Web's early days |
| 40% | SPECULATE | 9 | It can be risky to do this in the stock market |
| 38% | PUT | 3 | Competitions to do this to the shot were first recorded in early 19th century Scotland |
| 37% | TIMEWARP | 8 | Let's do this again in The Rocky Horror Show |
| 36% | EMBRYO | 6 | Life, in the early days |
| 36% | PRERECORD | 9 | Get in the can early |
| 36% | USEIT | 5 | "It's in the Way That You" do this, to Clapton |
| 35% | OPENHOUSE | 9 | Realtor's big day ... or what each word in the answers to the starred clues can do |
| 35% | MODEM | 5 | Computer accessory that was "dial-up" in the early days |
| 34% | DEHYDRATE | 9 | Being in the desert without water will do this |
| 34% | ROSIE | 5 | Figure in the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster |
| 34% | DISK | 4 | This can be slipped in the spine |
| 34% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | AMOVEABLEFEAST | 14 | ''But this is how Paris was in the early days . . .'' (1964) |
| 34% | POSSES | 6 | Rival rap groups in the early days of hip-hop |
| 34% | THOMASJEFFERSON | 15 | The third president, born this day in 1743 |
| 34% | AMS | 3 | Early hours in the day: Abbr. |
| 34% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 34% | MEME | 4 | Image with two lines of Impact font, in the early days |
| 34% | VEEJAY | 6 | Martha Quinn or Alan Hunter, in the early days of MTV |
| 34% | ORRIN | 5 | First name in the senate from 1977 to earlier this month |
| 33% | CIRCLELETTERSTO | 15 | Step 2: With 43- and 55-Across, do this in the grid (scrambled or not) ... it works for almost anyone! |
| 33% | EIGHTY | 6 | Around the World in this many Days |
| 33% | SLANT | 5 | What the letters in this clue do |
| 33% | CROSSDRESSING | 13 | "Mrs. Doubtfire" plot device - or what the letters in this clue's answer do five times? |
| 33% | EVIL | 4 | "Most of the ___ in this world is done by people with good intentions": T.S. Eliot |
| 33% | STAB | 4 | You could take this in the dark if you didn't know any better |
| 33% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Hop to it ... or what to do to the various eggs in this puzzle's shaded squares? |
| 33% | EMO | 3 | Rolling Stone called Sunny Day Real Estate's "Diary" the all-time greatest album in this genre |
| 33% | HASH | 4 | Something you can buy at any time of day in Frank's Diner down on the corner |