| 100% | RYES | 4 | Some loaves of bread … or a homophone for what they do in the oven |
| 62% | RYES | 4 | Some breads ... or a homophone for what bread loaves do |
| 42% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 40% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 39% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 39% | INAUGURATE | 10 | What they'll do again in front of the Capitol in 2021 |
| 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? |
| 39% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 39% | SITS | 4 | What a judge does for much of the day |
| 38% | TOSS | 4 | What they do to a coin in Netflix's "The Witcher" according to Jaskier the Bard's song |
| 38% | ACT | 3 | What the stars of "Star Trek" do for a living |
| 38% | FIVE | 4 | Half of a decade or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 34d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 38% | POSTITNOTES | 11 | Sticky yellow squares ... or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? |
| 37% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 37% | SOP | 3 | A piece of bread dipped in gravy or sauce, for example |
| 37% | MPH | 3 | What the speed of a tennis serve or baseball pitch is measured in: Abbr. |
| 37% | ONEEYED | 7 | Like a cyclops or some of the Minions in "Despicable Me": Hyph. |
| 36% | NOONE | 5 | Who can get in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you, in a 2007 hit |
| 36% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 36% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 36% | OMEN | 4 | The appearance of a butterfly in a home, for some |
| 36% | NOONE | 5 | Who "can get in the way of what I feel for you," in a 2007 #1 Alicia Keys hit |
| 36% | WED | 3 | What to do in the "Chapel of Love" |
| 36% | STOP | 4 | What to do in the name of love? |
| 36% | IMMORAL | 7 | What some consider you to be for not adhering to the laws of the Torah or Quran |
| 36% | PARALLELPARKS | 13 | Does a driving test task - or an apt description of the five circled diagonals in this puzzle |
| 35% | YOUSWEAR | 8 | Something done on a stack of Bibles or in response to someone stealing the cheesecake you were going to eat for breakfast |
| 35% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 35% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 35% | BORED | 5 | What they did on the Kola Peninsula for roughly 20 years |