| 100% | INERTIA | 7 | Inactivity or a tendency to do nothing |
| 78% | INERTIA | 7 | A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged |
| 56% | PENCHANT | 8 | A predilection or tendency to do something |
| 56% | INERTIA | 7 | Tendency to do nothing |
| 53% | INCLINE | 7 | Have a tendency to do something |
| 46% | TOSS | 4 | Something to do to a salad or coin |
| 46% | EAT | 3 | What to do in a trattoria or brasserie |
| 45% | POP | 3 | Something to do to a balloon or a wheelie |
| 45% | TAPON | 5 | Something to do to a shoulder or the brakes |
| 45% | SEAL | 4 | What to do to a deal or an envelope |
| 44% | TASK | 4 | A chore or a job to be done |
| 43% | LIE | 3 | Stand's opposite ... or a bad thing to do on the stand |
| 43% | REFRAIN | 7 | A song's chorus or to abstain from doing something |
| 43% | UNPACK | 6 | Thing to do when you arrive at, or return from, a vacation spot |
| 42% | SLAY | 4 | What Buffy would do to a vampire or demon |
| 42% | PARE | 4 | Peel ... or, phonetically, a fruit you might do this to |
| 41% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 40% | SLOTH | 5 | Bent to do nothing |
| 40% | LAZY | 4 | Apt to do nothing |
| 40% | ZIP | 3 | Nothing ... or a hint to what's hidden in 20-, 35- and 52-Across |
| 40% | ITEM | 4 | Thing on an agenda or a to-do list |
| 39% | SET | 3 | Needing to do nothing else |
| 39% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues? |
| 39% | DOWNANDDIRTY | 12 | Done in a quick but effective manner ... or like the answers to the three starred clues |
| 39% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 39% | HARBORING | 9 | Giving a home or shelter to. When done with a fugitive, it is illegal |
| 38% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | NOOP | 4 | Computer language instruction to do nothing: Hyph. |
| 38% | SICKLY | 6 | Has a tendency to be unwell frequently |
| 38% | LAZE | 4 | Do nothing on a sofa |