| 100% | LIECHEATSTEAL | 13 | What a cadet won't do (or tolerate those who do), per the West Point honor code |
| 34% | EXERCISECAUTION | 15 | Do the opposite of what those who 17-, 28- or 35-/38-Across do |
| 32% | TEACH | 5 | What those who can't do do, or so they say |
| 28% | WINS | 4 | What he who dies with the most toys does, according to a bumper sticker |
| 27% | HAND | 4 | What points to the hour or minute on a clock face |
| 27% | BOIL | 4 | What a watched pot won't do |
| 27% | EIGHT | 5 | Number that sounds like "ate" or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 7d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 27% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 27% | EAT | 3 | What a fussy kid won't do at dinner |
| 26% | AREA | 4 | ___ code (three digits that begin a phone number in the US or Canada) |
| 26% | ARGO | 4 | Cornstarch brand, or a 2012 movie that won the Best Picture Oscar |
| 26% | ERMA | 4 | Bombeck who wrote If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? |
| 26% | LENDS | 5 | What a bank or library does |
| 26% | HAUNTS | 6 | What a ghost or poltergeist does |
| 26% | BLEED | 5 | What clothes that aren't colorfast might do in the wash |
| 26% | OVERFLOWS | 9 | What a bathtub does if the water isn't turned off |
| 26% | LIE | 3 | What hips don't do, per a Shakira hit |
| 26% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 26% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does in the west |
| 26% | BREAKTHEGLASSCEILING | 20 | Overcome a certain career barrier ... or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 26% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 25% | FEELING | 7 | "Flashdance... What a ___," song from the movie "Flashdance" that won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1983 |
| 25% | PHONEHOME | 9 | What E.T. wanted to do while on Earth, per the 1982 movie |
| 25% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 25% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 25% | MATHGEEK | 8 | One who might tell the joke “Q: What does the ‘B’ in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for? A: Benoit B. Mandelbrot” |
| 25% | HUM | 3 | What someone who doesn’t know the words might do |
| 25% | COAL | 4 | What Santa brings those who are on the naughty list |
| 25% | STEAL | 5 | What a base runner might do to the next base |
| 25% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |