| 100% | GRAFT | 5 | Tree surgeons may have to do this |
| 63% | ROW | 3 | You may have to do this if your Mercury Pro XS quits |
| 55% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | AGAIN | 5 | "We have to do this a second time?" |
| 50% | USETHEFORCE | 11 | What one may have to do to destroy a Death Star |
| 49% | PAYCOD | 6 | What you may have to do for goods bought by mail order |
| 49% | RESAW | 5 | What you may have to do if you don't measure twice |
| 49% | PAYCASH | 7 | What you may have to do if someone doesn't take charge? |
| 47% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 47% | HOOPS | 5 | You might have to jump through them to get something done |
| 47% | ICER | 4 | You might have to eat this person's words |
| 47% | AGAIN | 5 | "Do we have to keep doing this?!" |
| 46% | POT | 3 | ___ luck party (you may have to contribute a dish to this party) |
| 46% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 45% | LITUP | 5 | Eyes might have done this in excitement or joy |
| 45% | RENEW | 5 | People may ask you to do this |
| 45% | GETWHALEWISHES | 14 | These may have been given to Ishmael? |
| 45% | TAKETHERAP | 10 | Anthony Ray Hinton, finally released in 2015 with an overturned conviction, had to do this for almost 30 years |
| 44% | WRESTLE | 7 | If you do this, you might get pinned to the mat |
| 44% | DREAM | 5 | "Whenever I want you, all I have to do" is this, in an Everly Brothers hit |
| 44% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 43% | GREASE | 6 | Something you might have to do to your cookie sheet prior to slinging your oatmeal-banana-raisin vegan cookies in the oven |
| 42% | SLEEVE | 6 | You might be said to have an ace up this |
| 41% | REEDIT | 6 | What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed |
| 41% | DEALS | 5 | Has to do (with) |
| 41% | CONCERNING | 10 | Having to do with |
| 41% | BOREON | 6 | Had to do with |
| 41% | BEARSON | 7 | Has to do with |
| 41% | ITLL | 4 | "___ have to do" |
| 41% | ITLL | 4 | "— have to do" |