| 100% | THEARCTICCIRCLE | 15 | It's round (like the dots you need to connect) and associated with Santa (like what you'll create when you do) |
| 39% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | PEDAL | 5 | What it's harder to do on an exercise bike when you increase the resistance |
| 35% | TINA | 4 | ___ Turner, former member of the duo with Ike who is known for her solo hits like "What's Love Got To Do with It" and "Private Dancer" |
| 35% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 34% | ROOF | 4 | Now you know what to look for, but where is it? (1/5) Did it fall out when Santa landed on the ___ of the house? |
| 32% | LIFE | 4 | "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious ___?": Mary Oliver |
| 32% | IRONIC | 6 | 1996 hit with the lyric "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" |
| 32% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 32% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 32% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 32% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 32% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 32% | SHAKE | 5 | "___ It Off," 2014 Taylor Swift song and what you can do to the things at 25a, 36a, 45a, 12d, and 38d |
| 31% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 31% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 31% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 31% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 31% | LINE | 4 | What you get when you connect the dots |
| 31% | PAY | 3 | What you need to do when buying something |
| 31% | CONNECTICUT | 11 | The Constitution State ... or, when parsed differently, what you gradually do with this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 31% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 30% | ADULTERATE | 10 | What you do to alcohol when you denature it |
| 30% | POST | 4 | What you do with a letter when sending it |
| 30% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do with It" singer nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 30% | REACTS | 6 | What baking soda does when you sprinkle it with vinegar |
| 30% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 30% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 30% | TINT | 4 | Color, like you might want to do with the title's last word |