| 100% | INNOVATE | 8 | To introduce changes in the way something is done |
| 63% | PARADIGMSHIFT | 13 | Fundamental change in the way something is understood |
| 49% | OLDSTYLE | 8 | In the way it used to be |
| 47% | STYLING | 7 | The way in which something is designed |
| 46% | OBSTRUCT | 8 | To get in the way of something |
| 46% | SMITTEN | 7 | On the way to being in love |
| 45% | SUGARCOAT | 9 | Make sweeter, in the way the theme answers do to their starred clues? |
| 44% | USEIT | 5 | "It's in the Way That You" do this, to Clapton |
| 43% | LETFLY | 6 | Something to do with the shapes in this puzzle? |
| 43% | TIEATIE | 7 | The way to do this is the #1 how-to search, according to Google |
| 43% | TONE | 4 | The way something is said |
| 43% | ANITA | 5 | Hill who wrote “There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better,” in a Times essay on the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings |
| 43% | BLED | 4 | What I always did to the car brakes after changing the fluid in those days when I was a DIY car guy (I no longer am!) |
| 43% | GLOW | 4 | Something to do in the dark? |
| 43% | COPYEDITOR | 10 | Professional proofreader ("Over there, in the snow! That had to be something, right?!") |
| 42% | WORDING | 7 | The way something is expressed on paper |
| 42% | SKI | 3 | In the movie "A View to a Kill", Bond did this once his snowmobile was blown up |
| 41% | HOW | 3 | Question word or the way that something is done |
| 41% | STOP | 4 | Something to do in the name of love? (6) |
| 41% | PRACTICE | 8 | The way things are done |
| 41% | AGELIMIT | 8 | The youngest you can be and still be allowed to do something: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FIRE | 4 | Something said to be in the eyes or belly |
| 40% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 39% | PUT | 3 | Competitions to do this to the shot were first recorded in early 19th century Scotland |
| 39% | ASPS | 4 | The snakes in Indiana Jones' "Why do they have to be snakes?" |
| 39% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 39% | UPFOR | 5 | In the running to be |
| 39% | TAP | 3 | Action that can be done to a phone, in more ways than one |
| 38% | JIG | 3 | This was changed to Juliette in 1956 when the NATO Phonetic Alphabet was adopted by the US |
| 38% | THEE | 4 | The way you used to be? |