| 100% | EFILE | 5 | Engage in a taxing activity of the modern age? |
| 45% | GUESSING | 8 | Much of the activity in a game of charades |
| 43% | WINONARYDER | 11 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Age of Innocence |
| 42% | RYDER | 5 | Winona —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for The Age of Innocence |
| 41% | ATIT | 4 | Engaged in a particular activity |
| 41% | BARHOP | 6 | Engage in a bachelor party activity |
| 41% | SLASH | 5 | Engage in a bit of swordplay |
| 41% | ARGUE | 5 | Engage in a war of words |
| 40% | TUGOFWAR | 8 | Sport where two teams engage in a test of strength with a rope, last played in the Summer Olympics in 1920: 3 wds. |
| 40% | PACE | 4 | Engage in a bit of back-and-forth? |
| 40% | CHATS | 5 | Engages in a bit of back-and-forth |
| 40% | CARD | 4 | Determine the age of, in a way |
| 40% | CARD | 4 | Verify the age of, in a way |
| 40% | IDS | 3 | Checks the age of, in a way |
| 39% | SELFREFLECTION | 14 | Activity on Lent or Yom Kippur ... or a quality of every letter in the answer to each starred clue |
| 39% | KEYBOARD | 8 | The modern equivalent of a typewriter |
| 39% | HORSEAROUND | 11 | Engage in tomfoolery ... and a hint to what goes with each part of the answers to starred clues, but not in the same way |
| 38% | PARANORMAL | 10 | "___ Activity," 2007 found footage film that follows the lives of a couple with a supernatural presence in their home |
| 38% | SPIRALED | 8 | Engaged in a vicious cycle of self-defeating behavior |
| 38% | MARGOLYES | 9 | Miriam —, Best Actress in a Supporting Role BAFTA winner for her role as Mrs Mingott in 1993 film drama The Age of Innocence |
| 38% | SPECTATOR | 9 | In a play, a member of the audience |
| 37% | WASHATERIA | 10 | In a ___, there's lots of ___ in the machinery |
| 37% | STERIC | 6 | Of the spatial relationship of atoms in a molecule |
| 37% | ACORN | 5 | Desire of the squirrel in "Ice Age" |
| 37% | ASTIR | 5 | Bustling about in a state of activity |
| 37% | SHERPAS | 7 | Tibetans of the Himalayas engaged in mountaineering |
| 37% | ISLE | 4 | Dot in a map of the ocean |
| 37% | CAST | 4 | All of the performers in a movie |
| 37% | GIN | 3 | One of the ingredients in a Martini |
| 37% | LEXIS | 5 | All of the words in a language |