| 100% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 59% | COOL | 4 | What a baker may do to bring down the temperature of a cake |
| 55% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 54% | EATALONE | 8 | What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller |
| 54% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 53% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 52% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 52% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 52% | FETCH | 5 | What a dog may do to the last parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 51% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |
| 50% | REWROTE | 7 | What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of "A Farewell to Arms" 39 times |
| 50% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 48% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 48% | CHANGELANES | 11 | What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across |
| 48% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 48% | HOLDSWATER | 10 | What a plausible theory does (and what the start of each of 17-, 28- and 43-Across does) |
| 48% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 48% | DYEJOB | 6 | What might get to the root of a problem? |
| 48% | RESERVE | 7 | What one can do to the last parts of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 48% | SAY | 3 | What you can do to the first parts of 17- and 53-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 48% | THROW | 5 | What one might do to the last parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 48% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 48% | PIECE | 5 | *Fall Humor* What did the angry pie say to the plate? "You want a ___ of me?" |
| 47% | MOVEDOVER | 9 | Change a map of southern England? … or, when parsed differently, what you need to do to the answers to the starred clues |
| 47% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 47% | TOW | 3 | What you would do to a car that has broken down |
| 47% | ROAR | 4 | What the MGM lion does at the beginning of a movie |
| 47% | SCATTER | 7 | What players do at the start of a game of tag |
| 47% | UPKEY | 5 | What's used to scroll to the top of a window |
| 47% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |