| 100% | PURR | 4 | What cats and some engines do |
| 61% | ROAR | 4 | What lions and big engines do |
| 61% | PURR | 4 | What cats and Ferraris may do |
| 61% | RACE | 4 | What dragsters and some hearts do |
| 60% | RHYME | 5 | What cats and rats do |
| 60% | LAP | 3 | What cats and waves do |
| 58% | RHYME | 5 | What cats, bats and rats do? |
| 58% | RHYME | 5 | What cats, rats and bats do |
| 56% | SOAR | 4 | What some prices and spirits do |
| 56% | RECUR | 5 | What some dreams and themes do |
| 56% | SAG | 3 | What some shoulders and pants do |
| 56% | SINK | 4 | What some ships and hearts do |
| 54% | RHYME | 5 | What bats and cats do |
| 52% | BOUNCE | 6 | What some emails, checks and balls do |
| 52% | CLASH | 5 | What yellow and purple do, some say |
| 51% | TOUR | 4 | What some bands and just-published authors do |
| 51% | SOAR | 4 | What some prices and spirits do (jump sharply) |
| 51% | STING | 5 | What some insects and some insults do |
| 46% | ROLLONTHEGROUND | 15 | What some dogs and flaming daredevils do |
| 46% | ROLLOVER | 8 | What some investments and trained dogs do |
| 46% | STING | 5 | What some insects and insults can do |
| 44% | TRIMTHETREE | 11 | Do some holiday decorating ... and what you need to do to four puzzle answers to produce familiar phrases? |
| 44% | ROLLOVER | 8 | What some investments and trained dogs do (2 wds.) |
| 44% | USEDFURNITURE | 13 | Some garage sale goods ... or what the answers at 15-, 19-, 33-, 41- and 62-Across have done? |
| 43% | LAP | 3 | What cats do ... or sit on |
| 43% | SHOWXRATEDFILMS | 15 | What some theaters won't do |
| 43% | APPEAL | 6 | What some losers in court do |
| 43% | BEND | 4 | What some drinking straws can do |
| 43% | COHABIT | 7 | What lions and lambs rarely do |
| 43% | AGREE | 5 | What nouns and verbs must do |