| 100% | IDEAS | 5 | Thoughts or suggestions as to what should be done |
| 48% | TAKEOUTFOOD | 11 | Alternative to home cooking, or what should be done to the answers with circles |
| 43% | MAD | 3 | What Hamlet is thought to be, or not to be |
| 41% | HOLDTHEFLOOR | 12 | What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? |
| 41% | CARRYTHATWEIGHT | 15 | What Mom is obligated to do as her due date approaches? [The Beatles, 1969] |
| 40% | TAKEOFF | 7 | Leave ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 40% | CUTIN | 5 | Interrupt ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 40% | PUTTHESQUEEZEON | 15 | Coerce, or what can be done to 18-, 23-, 52-, and 58-Across |
| 39% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 39% | SCRUBUP | 7 | Prep for surgery ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 39% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 39% | FILLINGUPWITHGAS | 16 | Pre-road trip detail ... and a hint to what certain parts of three long answers were doing as you solved them |
| 38% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 38% | STRIKEOUT | 9 | Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 38% | TEND | 4 | What agent will do to matters |
| 38% | ERASE | 5 | What backspacing will do to text |
| 38% | TEND | 4 | What accountant will do to matters |
| 38% | MISSIONIMPOSSIBLE | 17 | Popular action film franchise ... or what trying to find the item in this puzzle can be described as |
| 38% | EYELESS | 7 | Unable to see ... or, when taken as a homophone, what today's puzzle answers and clues all are |
| 38% | REPEAT | 6 | What should not be done with mistakes |
| 38% | SEW | 3 | What wardrobe will do to torn spandex |
| 38% | ADMIT | 5 | What Berklee will do to prodigy applying |
| 38% | HEAL | 4 | What time will do to a wound |
| 38% | SEW | 3 | What wardrobe will do to torn denim |
| 37% | SWIPERIGHT | 10 | Show interest on a dating app … or what 16-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across must do to be successful? |
| 37% | PEEL | 4 | What skin will do as a sunburn heals |
| 37% | XXXX | 4 | What blood will do to heal a wound |
| 37% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 36% | ONTASK | 6 | Paying attention to what needs to be done |
| 36% | REC | 3 | Suggestion of what to do, slangily |