| 100% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk in a "what's done is done" saying |
| 61% | SPILT | 5 | Word in a "What's done is done" proverb |
| 59% | DIRTYJOB | 8 | What "somebody's gotta do," in a saying |
| 56% | SOGGY | 5 | Like cereal that's been in milk for a while |
| 55% | OBEY | 4 | What a well-trained dog will do in response to its owner's commands |
| 54% | CHOPPINGENBLOC | 14 | What students in a karate class are often doing? |
| 54% | THEDIE | 6 | What is cast, in a saying |
| 54% | MORE | 4 | What "less" is, in a saying |
| 53% | ROOST | 5 | What chickens come home to do, in a saying |
| 53% | QUIT | 4 | What winners never do, in a saying |
| 53% | WEARIT | 6 | What to do "if the shoe fits," in a saying |
| 53% | SIMON | 5 | Do only what he says, in a game |
| 53% | NEIGH | 5 | What might be said in a horse voice? |
| 53% | CONGA | 5 | What people in a line may be doing |
| 52% | WEAKNESS | 8 | Say what your greatest __ is in a job interview |
| 52% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 52% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 51% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 51% | LAERTES | 7 | Character in "Hamlet" who is struck by a poison-tipped sword (we did say the play's a tragedy) |
| 51% | LIPREAD | 7 | See what someone is saying, in a way |
| 50% | ROCK | 4 | What Bobby Helms says "Jingle Bell" does, in a 1957 Christmas song? |
| 50% | GOTTHEHOOK | 10 | Was yanked offstage ... or what four puzzle answers did, in a way |
| 50% | ABLY | 4 | Done in a manner as though one knows exactly what one is doing |
| 50% | BATTERINGRAMEAU | 15 | What a hailstorm is doing when composer Jean-Philippe is caught in it? |
| 49% | HEY | 3 | What every barking dog is actually saying, in a classic "The Far Side" cartoon |
| 49% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 49% | WAG | 3 | What a happy dog's tail will do |
| 49% | TEAPOT | 6 | What "I" am, in a kid's song |
| 49% | ENTOURAGE | 9 | What may be in a star's orbit |
| 49% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk in a familiar proverb |