| 100% | ROWING | 6 | This is what the crew team does |
| 57% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 56% | IMOLD | 5 | Reaction to hearing what the kids are doing these days |
| 53% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 52% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 52% | ROWED | 5 | Was on the crew team |
| 52% | FILM | 4 | What each of this puzzle's songs also was, once you do the math |
| 51% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 49% | CHANGEOFPLANS | 13 | "Actually, this is what we're doing now …" |
| 49% | REBUT | 5 | What the defense team frequently does |
| 48% | SLANT | 5 | What the letters in this clue do |
| 48% | ABIDING | 7 | What the Dude is known for doing |
| 48% | HAVEANERAFORMUSIC | 17 | What the Beatles were able to do? |
| 48% | RISE | 4 | What the sun will do tomorrow morning |
| 48% | ERODE | 5 | What the Himalayas will do for millennia |
| 47% | DIE | 3 | What the Ramones were "Too Tough to" do |
| 47% | REPAIR | 6 | What the Genius Bar will do to iPhones |
| 47% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 47% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 47% | SAVE | 4 | What the Ctrl-S command is used to do |
| 47% | WHISTLING | 9 | What the 7 dwarfs are doing while they work |
| 46% | ALIGN | 5 | What the stars do when something is meant to be |
| 46% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 46% | JUMPING | 7 | What the five little monkeys were doing on the bed |
| 46% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 46% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 45% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 45% | ONEWORD | 7 | What the answer to this clue is not (it's two!) |
| 45% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 45% | OXYMORONS | 9 | What the answers to this puzzle's starred clues all are |