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| 50% | EBBING | 6 | What a tide is doing when it's not flowing |
| 46% | AJAR | 4 | What a door is when it's not a door, in an old joke |
| 46% | CRY | 3 | What a baby does when it is upset |
| 46% | PURRS | 5 | What a cat does when it is satisfied |
| 44% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 44% | OBEY | 4 | What a well-trained dog will do in response to its owner's commands |
| 42% | RODEO | 5 | A calf may be caught in it |
| 42% | 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 |
| 41% | ROAR | 4 | What a lion would do when it loses its patience |
| 40% | MARCHMADNESS | 12 | What a bracketologist is caught up in |
| 40% | LINT | 4 | It may be caught in a trap |
| 40% | SPAM | 4 | It may be caught in a filter |
| 40% | WORKINGMYWAYBACKTOU | 19 | What I am doing when spelling out six long answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | VANISHING | 9 | What lotion is doing when it sinks into skin |
| 40% | BLOOM | 5 | A flower is pretty when it's in this |
| 40% | THROAT | 6 | There may be a catch in it |
| 39% | RBI | 3 | What a hitter is credited with when someone else scores, in baseball: Abbr. |
| 39% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 39% | LATER | 5 | When a procrastinator will get it done |
| 38% | PREGNANT | 8 | What a woman is when she has "a bun in the oven" |
| 38% | GOVERNS | 7 | What a politician does when he is 1a |
| 38% | WEB | 3 | What a spider may catch its prey in |
| 38% | CONGA | 5 | What people in a line may be doing |
| 38% | EJECT | 5 | What pilots do when a jet is going down |
| 38% | SPEW | 4 | What a shaken soda bottle will do when uncapped |
| 38% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 37% | INJURYTIME | 10 | What’s allotted in soccer when a player is hurt |
| 37% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 37% | REARED | 6 | What a horse did when it stood on its hind legs |