| 100% | KNEEL | 5 | What 20-Down does from the victory formation |
| 44% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |
| 44% | BLEW | 4 | What the Big Bad Wolf did to knock down houses |
| 44% | SPIT | 4 | What you might do to the juice from chewed tobacco |
| 44% | ROW | 3 | It's what you do "gently down the stream" |
| 42% | COOL | 4 | What a baker may do to bring down the temperature of a cake |
| 41% | BORED | 5 | What they did on the Kola Peninsula for roughly 20 years |
| 40% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 40% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 39% | TAKESTEPS | 9 | What to do to read the secret message (going diagonally down, then diagonally back up the under side) |
| 39% | BAT | 3 | What 44-Down did in the MLB |
| 39% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 39% | EJECT | 5 | What a fighter pilot might do from the cockpit if the plane is hit |
| 39% | CALENDARREFORM | 14 | The change from Julian to Gregorian ... or what would be needed to make 20-, 31- and 40-Across possible? |
| 38% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 38% | SNOWS | 5 | What it does when flakes fall from the sky |
| 38% | RAINS | 5 | "I bless the ___ down in Africa, gonna take some time to do ..." (lyric from a famous Toto song) |
| 38% | BREAKRANKS | 10 | Deviate from one's group, and what the black squares in rows 3, 5, 8 and 11 do |
| 38% | ARTS | 4 | What the "A" in 20-Down stands for |
| 37% | IVEGOTTHESCOOP | 14 | Words from someone in the know, or what the pros in 20-, 26-, 36- and 50-Across might say |
| 37% | EGGDROP | 7 | Physics demonstration often done from the roof of a school |
| 37% | TURN | 4 | Bad thing to try to do from the middle lane |
| 37% | JAM | 3 | What 20-, 37- and 53-Across may do |
| 37% | LLD | 3 | What 26 Down got from ND |
| 37% | BLOW | 4 | What the wind does |
| 37% | SHINE | 5 | What the sun does |
| 37% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 37% | ALOW | 4 | Down from the deck |
| 37% | SANK | 4 | What the Titanic did |
| 37% | BLEW | 4 | What the wind did |