| 100% | STARE | 5 | It's not good to do this at the sun |
| 46% | PUTITDOWN | 9 | It's hard to do this to a good book |
| 45% | FEVER | 5 | It's not good to run one |
| 45% | SOAPSTONE | 9 | It is not possible to do the washing with it |
| 45% | VIIIBALL | 8 | It's not good to be behind it |
| 44% | SPECULATE | 9 | It can be risky to do this in the stock market |
| 44% | FLAMES | 6 | It's not good to go up in them |
| 44% | FOOT | 4 | It's not good to have in one's mouth |
| 43% | CELEBRATE | 9 | Kool & the Gang say it's all right to do this |
| 43% | POT | 3 | Something it's not good to go to |
| 43% | DEEPEND | 7 | Where it's not good to go off? |
| 43% | COMA | 4 | State it's not good to be in |
| 43% | SORTS | 5 | What it's not good to be out of |
| 43% | ERR | 3 | To do this is human, it's said |
| 42% | CIRCULATE | 9 | Veins do this to blood to get it through the body |
| 42% | DOG | 3 | Jake the ___, from "Adventure Time" reminds you this New Year that "being bad at something is the first step to being sorta good at it" |
| 42% | THATWASNTME | 11 | Song by 32-Across with the lyrics "I'm not asking you to move on or forget it / But these are better days" (3 wds.) |
| 42% | GLASSJAW | 8 | A boxer who is not good at taking it on the chin |
| 42% | OPTIONAL | 8 | Not required, do this if you want to do it |
| 42% | DREADING | 8 | Not looking forward to at all, scared of doing it |
| 40% | PASSPLAY | 8 | It's not all done on the ground |
| 40% | CLIO | 4 | It's given to the best spot |
| 40% | OVERCHARGE | 10 | Virginia's Dominion Energy Inc. did this to its customers in 2017 and 2018 to the tune of more than $300 million |
| 39% | DOTHEMATH | 9 | "Figure it out!" … or how to arrive at this puzzle's solution, using the answers to italicized clues |
| 39% | HOWL | 4 | A wolf might do this at the moon |
| 39% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does at day's end |
| 39% | ATEIT | 5 | Goldilocks did this to the bear's porridge |
| 39% | PAR | 3 | It's good to break this |
| 39% | JOKER | 5 | It's not found within the four corners of this puzzle |
| 39% | BINGE | 5 | The Netflix autoplay makes it easy to do this |