| 100% | RHYME | 5 | What "miss you" and "this clue" do |
| 70% | AGREE | 5 | What this clue's subject and verb doesn't do |
| 67% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 66% | RAISETHEBAR | 11 | Set higher standards, and what you must do five times in this puzzle |
| 66% | HIDEF | 5 | TV type, and, read differently, what you do four times in this puzzle |
| 65% | SLANT | 5 | What the letters in this clue do |
| 65% | SAT | 3 | What Miss Muffet and Humpty Dumpty did |
| 65% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 65% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | "The Stuff You Love" toy company, and what this puzzle's circled letters do |
| 64% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Brain trust, and what you need to add to solve 16 clues in this puzzle |
| 63% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 62% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 62% | ECHO | 4 | What this clue does . . . does . . . does . . . |
| 62% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 61% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 61% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 60% | AGING | 5 | What you've been doing while reading this clue |
| 60% | LISALOEB | 8 | She sang Stay (I Missed You) and I Do |
| 59% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 59% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 59% | FILLINTHEBLANKS | 15 | Provide missing info ... and what four clues do to their answers |
| 58% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 58% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 58% | PLAY | 4 | What you do with toys and games |
| 58% | YAWN | 4 | Act that's "contagious" (and what you might do soon after entering this answer) |
| 57% | SEW | 3 | What you do with a needle and thread |
| 57% | VIDEOCALL | 9 | What Zoom and Facetime enable you to do |
| 57% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 56% | TIMER | 5 | What's counting away while you do this crossword |
| 56% | DETECT | 6 | Nancy Drew and Miss Marple do this |