| 100% | TURNEDTHETABLES | 15 | Reversed an unfavorable situation, and what you did in the theme answers |
| 46% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 45% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 45% | CATSUP | 6 | Hunt's offering, and what you'll find in the starred answers |
| 43% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 43% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 43% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |
| 42% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 42% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 42% | DOTTEDTHEIS | 11 | Attended to details, and what you've done in five places if you've completed the puzzle |
| 42% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 42% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 42% | BROKENBONES | 11 | *Orthopedist's concerns ... and what you'll find in two parts in the answers to the starred clues |
| 41% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 41% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 40% | CREATEDAMONSTER | 15 | Emulated Dr. Frankenstein ... or what you did after you filled in the shaded parts of 17-, 23-, 50- and 61-Across? |
| 40% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 40% | BETON | 5 | What you do in a casino, you ___ an outcome : 2 wds. |
| 40% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 40% | MEMORY | 6 | Answer to the riddle "I form in an instant and last a lifetime. What am I?" |
| 39% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 39% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 39% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 39% | FALLOUTBOY | 10 | "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" emo band: 3 wds. |
| 38% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 38% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 37% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 37% | FORSTARTERS | 11 | "To begin..." and what the theme answers need in order to make sense |
| 37% | SKI | 3 | What you might do at Aspen in the winter |
| 37% | ORDER | 5 | What the theme answers are in, or what they contain |