| 100% | CUTONBOLDLINES | 14 | First step of instructions for what to do with this finished puzzle |
| 59% | CUTALONGTHEDOTTEDLINE | 21 | Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done |
| 45% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 42% | CONNECTALLTHEOS | 15 | What to do after completing this puzzle, with four straight lines |
| 42% | SOLVEFORX | 9 | Common directive in 17-Across … or what to do with five squares in this puzzle |
| 41% | PUTONESFOOTINIT | 15 | Say the wrong thing, or what to do with the first words of the starred answers |
| 41% | SPOTTHEDIFFERENCE | 17 | Kind of visual puzzle ... or what to do with each line in this puzzle's two shaded areas |
| 40% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | DONTLOOKATME | 12 | “I had nothing to do with it!” . . . or how to make sense of twelve of this puzzle’s clues |
| 38% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 38% | BURYTHE | 7 | With 43-Down, make peace ... or what you must do to complete this puzzle? |
| 37% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 37% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 37% | CONNECTTHEDOTS | 14 | With 15-Down, what to do to reveal this puzzle's theme |
| 37% | MINCE | 5 | With 45-Across, not be direct ... or what four groups of black squares in this puzzle do? |
| 37% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 37% | TAKESTHEEDGEOFF | 15 | Alleviates pain a little … or what this puzzle does to certain squares for literal effect |
| 36% | SSORCAYREVE | 11 | Start of instructions for solving this puzzle |
| 36% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 36% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 36% | LETFLY | 6 | Something to do with the shapes in this puzzle? |
| 35% | SECRET | 6 | With 46-Across, some areas in Clue … or a hint to the first, fourth, twelfth and fifteenth rows of this puzzle |
| 35% | SENSE | 5 | What to try to make of this puzzle? |
| 35% | FANTASTICBEASTS | 15 | With 68- and 74-Across, J. K. Rowling's first screenplay, with a hint to three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 34% | READEVERYOTHERLETTER | 20 | Instruction for discovering this puzzle’s hidden wish to solvers |
| 34% | 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) |
| 34% | WORKOUTTHEBUGS | 14 | Gradually fix something ... or what to do to understand this puzzle's italicized clues? |
| 34% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 33% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |