| 100% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 49% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 46% | SLUR | 4 | What a drunk would do with his words |
| 46% | CHEWONIT | 8 | What a dog will do with a bone |
| 45% | SEW | 3 | What a tailor would do with a needle and thread |
| 42% | BOW | 3 | What a cellist plays the cello with |
| 42% | RAINALCOHOL | 11 | What a tosspot fantasizes the clouds would do? |
| 42% | BITE | 4 | What a fisherman hopes the fish will do |
| 41% | SIT | 3 | What you would do with a chair |
| 41% | AIM | 3 | What a player from 1-Across would do before shooting |
| 41% | PLAYS | 5 | What a kid does at the park with friends, often |
| 40% | SHIFT | 5 | What you would do with gears in a car |
| 40% | STRUM | 5 | What you would do with a guitar (rhymes with gum) |
| 40% | FLIP | 4 | What you would do with a coin or a switch |
| 38% | EDIT | 4 | What you do to a picture with filters before posting it |
| 38% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 38% | PEEL | 4 | What you would do to a banana before eating it |
| 38% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 37% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 37% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 37% | ABSTAIN | 7 | What a celibate will do |
| 37% | CUT | 3 | What a scalpel will do |
| 37% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 37% | AMP | 3 | What a guitarist would plug his electric guitar into: Abbr |
| 37% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 37% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 37% | BASSOON | 7 | Woodwind instrument with a double reed playing in the tenor and bass ranges |
| 36% | SAIL | 4 | What a ship would do on sea |
| 36% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 36% | RIDE | 4 | What a surfer would do on a wave |