| 100% | STAGES | 6 | What big projects are usually done in |
| 60% | CHIRPING | 8 | What birds are usually doing in the morning |
| 51% | NAMING | 6 | What new parents are usually involved in |
| 46% | PAIRS | 5 | What socks are usually sold in |
| 45% | CROWING | 7 | What cockerels are heard doing in the mornings |
| 45% | DEBT | 4 | What you are in if you did 3d |
| 44% | CONGA | 5 | What people in a line may be doing |
| 44% | ABLY | 4 | Done in a manner as though one knows exactly what one is doing |
| 44% | AGITATE | 7 | What "singer" in seat next to you will do |
| 43% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 43% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 43% | ONTHEHOUSE | 10 | What your mortgage usually is, and isn't, in a way |
| 42% | LASH | 4 | What ousted member will do in press (with "out") |
| 42% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 42% | WHIRLING | 8 | What Dervishes are doing in physical meditation |
| 42% | SLAY | 4 | What knights in shining armor are prepared to do to offending dragons |
| 42% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 42% | PLAYINGSOLO | 11 | What Harrison Ford was doing in 1977, 1980 and 1983? |
| 41% | LEFTTORIGHT | 11 | How people are usually listed in photo captions [phew, all done!] |
| 41% | WORKINGMYWAYBACKTOU | 19 | What I am doing when spelling out six long answers in this puzzle? |
| 41% | WOOKIE | 6 | What do you call Chewbacca when chocolate is stuck in his hair? "Chocolate Chip ___" |
| 40% | BATTERINGRAMEAU | 15 | What a hailstorm is doing when composer Jean-Philippe is caught in it? |
| 40% | GETTINGTHEW | 11 | Winning, in sports slang ... and what each of four puzzle answers is doing? |
| 40% | EAT | 3 | What you're not usually allowed to do in a library |
| 40% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 39% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 39% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 38% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 38% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 38% | POUT | 4 | What "you better not" do, in "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" |