| 100% | SANITIZE | 8 | For hygiene, soaking the tools does this to them |
| 43% | AGITATES | 8 | A washer does this to clothes to clean them |
| 41% | CRUSHED | 7 | Did this to grapes to turn them into wine |
| 41% | SWAB | 4 | Sailors do this to clean the deck |
| 41% | ATEIT | 5 | Goldilocks did this to the bear's porridge |
| 41% | COOK | 4 | A fraudster might do this to the books |
| 40% | CIRCULATE | 9 | Blood does this to bring oxygen through the body |
| 40% | ABSORBS | 7 | A proton does this to an electron when they meet |
| 40% | TOSSACOIN | 9 | Referees do this to decide who gets the ball first |
| 39% | CRUNCHES | 8 | Do these exercises to target the abdominal muscles |
| 39% | CIRCULATE | 9 | Veins do this to blood to get it through the body |
| 39% | TOOLSOFTHETRADE | 15 | You need these to do the job |
| 37% | SACKED | 6 | Grady Jarrett did this to the Patriots' Brady three times in Super Bowl LI |
| 37% | DIP | 3 | One does this with their toe to test the water |
| 37% | SLEEP | 5 | Koalas do this for up to 20 hours a day |
| 37% | DEFUSE | 6 | The bomb squad does this to armed bombs |
| 37% | REPORT | 6 | Journalists do this when they give the news |
| 37% | DEPUFF | 6 | *You can do this to your eyes by placing some 7a's bags on them |
| 37% | WRESTLE | 7 | If you do this, you might get pinned to the mat |
| 37% | REDPENCIL | 9 | Mark up with edits, or the tool used to do so |
| 37% | OPPORTUNE | 9 | The best moment for something to happen is this |
| 37% | IDS | 3 | They're usually required for admission to the bar |
| 36% | SHRUBBERY | 9 | To pass the Knights Who Say Ni, bring them this |
| 36% | REPEAT | 6 | Books do this when they say the same thing twice |
| 36% | RECOMMENDS | 10 | A good waiter usually does this to help a diner pair the right wine with the entree |
| 36% | WHISTLE | 7 | The seven dwarfs do this while they work |
| 36% | CHANGINGTABLES | 14 | Furniture for new parents ... and a literal description of the circled squares (look on top of them to find this puzzle's six-letter meta answer) |
| 36% | SEEK | 4 | Metallica does this before they "destroy", according to their 1983 recording |
| 36% | CHEMICALSYMBOLS | 15 | This puzzle's circled letters, for the words that precede them |
| 35% | OBELUS | 6 | The name for this typographical mark, often used to mark footnotes: † |