| 100% | DOTTEDTHEIS | 11 | Attended to details, and what you've done in five places if you've completed the puzzle |
| 47% | FISHORCUTBAIT | 13 | Line to the indecisive, and what you'll need to add in order to complete some lines in this puzzle |
| 45% | 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? |
| 45% | RAISETHEBAR | 11 | Set higher standards, and what you must do five times in this puzzle |
| 45% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 44% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 43% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 43% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 42% | CHANGECOLOR | 11 | What autumn leaves do, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue |
| 42% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 42% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 41% | ADOZENROSES | 11 | What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style |
| 41% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 41% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 40% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 40% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't forget to write," and what you must do in 13-, 24- and 43-Across |
| 40% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 40% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 40% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 39% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 39% | JACKINTHEBOXES | 14 | Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle |
| 39% | BROKENBONES | 11 | *Orthopedist's concerns ... and what you'll find in two parts in the answers to the starred clues |
| 38% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 38% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 38% | PUTONANACT | 10 | Pretend, and what you'll find five times in this puzzle |
| 38% | IHOP | 4 | Chain with an alternate 28-letter name ... and what you need to write five puzzle answers? |
| 38% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 38% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |