| 100% | FLOWS | 5 | What 16-Across does, slowly |
| 61% | CARRYUMBRELLAS | 14 | What 16- and 37-Across and 11- and 24-Down were all known to do |
| 60% | BREAKINTOASMILE | 15 | What you might do if you sing 16-Across |
| 60% | GOCOASTTOCOAST | 14 | Travel cross-country … or a description of what 16-, 23- and 43-Across do? |
| 58% | LENTILS | 7 | Staple legumes, or parsed differently, what 16- and 24-Across did for 51- and 63-Across |
| 57% | EBB | 3 | What a 67 Across often does |
| 56% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 56% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 56% | HIDDENAGENDA | 12 | What 16-Across has? |
| 54% | BREAKDANCE | 10 | Debut sport at the Paris Olympics, or what 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across do to their circled letters |
| 54% | SWIPERIGHT | 10 | Show interest on a dating app … or what 16-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across must do to be successful? |
| 54% | SIPCHAMPAGNE | 12 | What a celebrant may do at 16-Down |
| 53% | CROSS | 5 | What this puzzle's across and down answers do |
| 52% | AGE | 3 | What astronauts do more slowly in space than on earth |
| 52% | SIR | 3 | What 16-Across has been called since 1998 |
| 51% | BRAG | 4 | What 105-Acrosses do |
| 51% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 51% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 51% | COMETOYOURSENSES | 16 | Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do? |
| 50% | RHYME | 5 | What Across clue-and-answer pairings in this puzzle do, every time |
| 49% | ACT | 3 | What 27-Across does for a living |
| 47% | SLEW | 4 | What Cain did to 35-Across |
| 46% | ACT | 3 | What 31-Across would do on TV |
| 46% | FILEANEXTENSION | 15 | What some do regarding a 54-Across |
| 46% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 46% | YSL | 3 | 16 Across initials |
| 46% | CBSEVENINGNEWS | 14 | 16 Across' show |
| 45% | TOOTSHISOWNHORN | 15 | What a 41-Across does best |
| 45% | HOOT | 4 | What 69-Across will grow up to do |
| 45% | JAM | 3 | What 20-, 37- and 53-Across may do |