| 100% | CHIRPING | 8 | What birds are usually doing in the morning |
| 70% | CROWING | 7 | What cockerels are heard doing in the mornings |
| 54% | CROW | 4 | What roosters do in the morning |
| 52% | STAGES | 6 | What big projects are usually done in |
| 50% | RISE | 4 | What the sun will do tomorrow morning |
| 48% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 48% | JOG | 3 | A short run often done in the morning |
| 47% | SPIT | 4 | What the nests in bird's-nest soup are made of |
| 47% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 46% | SHADOW | 6 | What's longer in the morning and evening than it is at noon |
| 46% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 46% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 45% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 45% | EARL | 4 | Breakfast is done ____y in the morning |
| 45% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 44% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 44% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 44% | PAIRS | 5 | What socks are usually sold in |
| 44% | OPEN | 4 | Shop sign in the morning, usually |
| 44% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 44% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 44% | DRESSED | 7 | In the morning, kids are told to go get __ |
| 44% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 43% | EXAM | 4 | Former spouse in the morning is trial |
| 43% | BED | 3 | What you get out of in the morning |
| 43% | EXAM | 4 | Former spouse in the morning is a trial |
| 43% | BEDS | 4 | Things usually made in the morning |
| 42% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 42% | TWEET | 5 | What birds and the president both do |
| 42% | MIGRATE | 7 | What birds do to avoid the cold winter |