| 100% | OPENNOW | 7 | Ready to do business, as of this moment |
| 52% | OPEN | 4 | Ready to do business |
| 51% | SOFAR | 5 | As of this moment: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ALLSET | 6 | "You ready to do this?" |
| 46% | IMALLIN | 7 | "So ready to do this with you forever" |
| 42% | OBLIGE | 6 | To do as someone asks of you as a way of helping |
| 40% | BORROW | 6 | Neighbors may do this to a cup of sugar |
| 39% | TODAY | 5 | As of this date |
| 39% | YET | 3 | As of this time |
| 38% | CRUNCHTIME | 10 | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 38% | REPS | 4 | Kentucky's Julius Maddox managed to do four of these in lifting 705 pounds on May 19 |
| 37% | BOYCOTTS | 8 | Refuses to do business with |
| 37% | BOYCOTT | 7 | Refuse to do business with |
| 37% | RESTORING | 9 | Eliminating the effects of wear and tear on, as was done to 38-Across |
| 37% | DONTLOOKATME | 12 | “I had nothing to do with it!” . . . or how to make sense of twelve of this puzzle’s clues |
| 36% | PLYA | 4 | One way to do business: ___ trade |
| 36% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 36% | SORTS | 5 | Gets ready to do a load, say |
| 36% | CDCHARACTER | 11 | Risky person to do business with, briefly |
| 36% | DROPS | 5 | Gets ready to do push-ups, say |
| 36% | LOGON | 5 | Get ready to do some surfing, say |
| 36% | INTHECROSSHAIRS | 15 | Fixed as a target ... or a hint to four pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle |
| 36% | ERR | 3 | To do this is human |
| 35% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 35% | TRADINGPOST | 11 | Place to do business in the Old West |
| 35% | LENDINGOUT | 10 | Allowing use of, as a library does ... or, in three parts, a hint to four puzzle answers |
| 35% | FERDINAND | 9 | Animated film featuring the voice of 27-Down as a bull who does not like to fight |
| 35% | OPENSFOR | 8 | Does business on, as a holiday |
| 35% | RIPE | 4 | Ready to eat, as fruit |
| 35% | ONICE | 5 | Ready to serve, as champagne |