| 100% | SITS | 4 | What a judge does for much of the day |
| 69% | SLEEP | 5 | What newborns do for most of the day |
| 55% | DREAMT | 6 | What Dorothy did, for most of the "Wizard of Oz" movie |
| 54% | CARRY | 5 | Do most of the work for, as a team |
| 49% | RYES | 4 | Some loaves of bread … or a homophone for what they do in the oven |
| 48% | ERODE | 5 | What the Colorado River will continue to do to the canyon for a few more zillion years |
| 46% | ACT | 3 | What the stars of "Star Trek" do for a living |
| 45% | PETRIFIEDROCK | 13 | What a scary Doris Day did on the film set? |
| 45% | FALLS | 5 | What a Jenga tower does at the end of the game |
| 45% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 45% | RISE | 4 | What a bailiff tells people to do when the judge enters |
| 44% | COOL | 4 | What a baker may do to bring down the temperature of a cake |
| 43% | KOALA | 5 | Aussie known for sleeping most of the day away |
| 43% | EATALLCOSTS | 11 | What the backer of a failing business may do? |
| 43% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 43% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 43% | OIL | 3 | What lasted for eight days, in the story of Hanukkah |
| 43% | YEN | 3 | What a "Y" with a pair of horizontal lines through it is the symbol for |
| 43% | BIDEN | 5 | Recipient of the most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate |
| 43% | PAR | 3 | 4, for more than half of the holes on a standard golf course |
| 43% | ROAR | 4 | What the MGM lion does at the beginning of a movie |
| 42% | DREWBLOOD | 9 | What the vampires did on the first day of art class? |
| 42% | SCATTER | 7 | What players do at the start of a game of tag |
| 42% | BULLSEYE | 8 | Middle of a target, what the shooter aims for |
| 42% | TOOHOTTOHANDEL | 14 | Like the dog days of summer, for a composer? |
| 42% | HAPPYNOW | 8 | Question that's more of a comment meaning "Look at what you've done!" |
| 42% | SWELL | 5 | What the music might do at the emotional climax of a movie |
| 42% | TURNRED | 7 | What the focus of a 125-Across will do at its climax |
| 42% | PREDICATE | 9 | Part of a sentence, tells what the subject's doing |
| 42% | LAURYNHILL | 10 | Winner of eight Grammys, the most for a female rapper |