| 100% | LIFESENTCE | 10 | Longest term (and literally, do a surfing stunt) |
| 54% | HANG | 4 | With 118-Down, do a surfing stunt |
| 44% | LOOKMANOHANDS | 13 | Cry while doing a stunt ... or a hint to 2-, 7- and 12-Down |
| 43% | HANGTEN | 7 | Do a surfing maneuver |
| 43% | HANGSTEN | 8 | Does a surfing trick |
| 40% | JUICEUP | 7 | Supercharge, and a hint to what's literally hiding in the four longest Down answers |
| 40% | HANGTEN | 7 | Do a tricky surfing maneuver (and a hint to this puzzle's theme) |
| 40% | HANGS10 | 7 | Does a surfboard stunt |
| 40% | ROPED | 5 | Did a rodeo stunt |
| 40% | PACKSAPUNCH | 11 | Has a powerful effect, or what each of 17-, 26-, 38- and 49-Across does, literally |
| 39% | TIMED | 5 | Did a track and field job |
| 37% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 37% | POWER | 5 | Asset when doing a clean and jerk |
| 36% | FILLINGUPWITHGAS | 16 | Pre-road trip detail ... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them |
| 36% | PUTTERAROUND | 12 | Do a little of this and a little of that |
| 36% | GOOUT | 5 | Do dinner and a movie, say |
| 36% | DAGGER | 6 | A sharp and long pointed knife |
| 36% | BAGUETTE | 8 | A long and narrow French bread |
| 36% | SPLITWOOD | 9 | Do a campground chore, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 35% | ERA | 3 | A long and distinct period of history |
| 35% | STEM | 4 | Long and standing part of a plant |
| 35% | SLAPDASH | 8 | Done in a hurried and careless way |
| 35% | DARE | 4 | A silly stunt may be done on one |
| 35% | AGED | 4 | A term for years-old wine and cheese |
| 35% | GAR | 3 | A fish with a long and narrow jaw |
| 35% | SCABBARD | 8 | Long Mediterranean fish, and a sheath for swords |
| 35% | COCOONING | 9 | Doing dinner and a movie at home, say |
| 34% | ROPY | 4 | Long and fibrous, like a vine |
| 34% | PROSPER | 7 | Live long and __, a Vulcan salute |
| 34% | STEELY | 6 | Long and hard, as a stare |