| 100% | LENIN | 5 | Author of 1902's "What Is to Be Done?" |
| 60% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 59% | AGENDA | 6 | What is to be done? |
| 59% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 58% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 58% | SOW | 3 | What Tears for Fears will do to "The Seeds of Love" |
| 56% | MAKINGAPACT | 11 | Formally agreeing to terms, and what this puzzle's sets of circled letters are gradually doing |
| 56% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 55% | ONIT | 4 | Doing what needs to be done |
| 55% | SORTS | 5 | What it's not good to be out of |
| 54% | CHANGINGTHEGAME | 15 | Innovating ... or what the end of the answer to each starred entry is doing? |
| 54% | ADMIT | 5 | What Musician's Institute will do to prodigy |
| 54% | LOCKHERROOM | 11 | What she did to not be bothered by the rest of the family? |
| 53% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 53% | TYPE | 4 | What a computer's keyboard is used to do |
| 53% | SAVE | 4 | What the Ctrl-S command is used to do |
| 53% | VOLUNTEER | 9 | Offer to do something of one's free will |
| 53% | STOPAZOMBIE | 11 | What any of the many weapons on "The Walking Dead" is intended to do? |
| 53% | ONTASK | 6 | Paying attention to what needs to be done |
| 53% | XXXXXXXXXX | 10 | Author of 1902's "To Build a Fire" |
| 52% | LAUNCHED | 8 | What Helen of Troy's face did to 1,000 ships |
| 52% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |
| 52% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |
| 52% | IMITATE | 7 | To copy what someone else is doing |
| 51% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 51% | EXCHANGINGRINGS | 15 | Sharing in a symbol of commitment … or what four rows in this puzzle are doing to form new phrases |
| 51% | CLAP | 4 | What an audience will do to show appreciation |
| 51% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 51% | WOEISME | 7 | "Oh, what am I to do?" |
| 51% | DEARME | 6 | "Oh, what am I to do?" |