| 100% | PLAYS | 5 | What a kid does at the park with friends, often |
| 48% | PICNIC | 6 | Meal at the park with friends, say |
| 42% | EAT | 3 | What a fussy kid won't do at dinner |
| 42% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 41% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 40% | SCATTER | 7 | What players do at the start of a game of tag |
| 40% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 40% | BOOTHECLOWN | 11 | What a coulrophobe might do at the circus? |
| 39% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 39% | PICNIC | 6 | Outdoor meal often eaten on the grass, at a park |
| 38% | WIFI | 4 | What you might want the password for at a friend's house: Hyph. |
| 38% | ROAR | 4 | What the MGM lion does at the beginning of a movie |
| 38% | FALLS | 5 | What a Jenga tower does at the end of the game |
| 38% | WINS | 4 | What he who dies with the most toys does, according to a bumper sticker |
| 38% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 38% | SWELL | 5 | What the music might do at the emotional climax of a movie |
| 38% | FOAM | 4 | ___ at the mouth (what a rabid dog might do) |
| 38% | FOAM | 4 | ___ at the mouth (what a rabid animal might do) |
| 37% | CASTING | 7 | With 146-Across, what the center of this puzzle is doing during a 125-Across |
| 37% | XCHANGESTUDENT | 14 | Pupil with a phonetic beginning that hints at what the circled letters comprise |
| 37% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
| 37% | SELLS | 5 | What she does with seashells at the seashore |
| 36% | TIE | 3 | What a kid learns to do to shoelaces |
| 36% | TREE | 4 | What a kid might climb in the backyard |
| 36% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 36% | KITE | 4 | What a kid could fly with a string attached |
| 36% | DILATES | 7 | What a pupil does in the dark |
| 36% | GOFORADIP | 9 | What you might do at the beach |
| 36% | THICKENS | 8 | What a plot often does |
| 36% | SKINNERDIP | 10 | What a psychologist does at midnight in a motel pool? |