| 100% | SCURRY | 6 | What chicks and ducks and geese better do, in song |
| 47% | FOWL | 4 | Chicks and ducks and geese |
| 42% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 41% | ROAM | 4 | What buffalo do, in song |
| 40% | DENY | 4 | What "nobody can" do, in song |
| 40% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in song |
| 40% | COMES | 5 | What's between here and the sun, in song? |
| 40% | AMALGAMATE | 10 | What America Online and Time Warner did in 2000 |
| 40% | BATTERS | 7 | "What do pancakes and baseball teams have in common? They both need good ___" |
| 40% | WEEPS | 5 | What a guitar gently does in a 1968 Beatles song |
| 39% | GETHAPPY | 8 | Song sung by Judy Garland in "Summer Stock," and what the first halves of the starred answers can all do |
| 39% | THEYALSOSERVE | 13 | What standers and waiters do in tennis? |
| 39% | ELOPE | 5 | What Othello and Desdemona do in "Othello" |
| 38% | GOROUNDANDROUND | 15 | What the filled-in circles do, in a tots' song |
| 38% | MIGRATE | 7 | What geese do in autumn to keep warm |
| 38% | FALLBACK | 8 | What US and UK clocks do in autumn |
| 38% | SHRED | 5 | What surfers and guitarists can do, in slang |
| 38% | WENTDEAF | 8 | What Beethoven did in his 30s and 40s |
| 38% | ELOPE | 5 | What Romeo and Juliet planned to do in Mantua |
| 38% | SHED | 4 | What many dogs do in the spring and fall |
| 38% | LIST | 4 | What Santa's making and double-checking, in song |
| 38% | RERAN | 5 | What Ralph Nader did in 2000, 2004 and 2008 |
| 38% | RUSHIN | 6 | What fools do, in a song title |
| 37% | MEETME | 6 | What to do "in St. Louis," in an old song |
| 37% | PLAYINGSOLO | 11 | What Harrison Ford was doing in 1977, 1980 and 1983? |
| 37% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in a classic song |
| 37% | PICKEDUPTHEPACE | 15 | Hurried, and what this puzzle's word ladder literally did in eight steps? |
| 37% | CROSSEDABEAR | 12 | Betrayed Paddington? … or what 20-, 34- and 41-Across did in this puzzle |
| 37% | GOTOHEAVEN | 10 | What all good children do, in a nursery rhyme |
| 36% | ROCK | 4 | What Bobby Helms says "Jingle Bell" does, in a 1957 Christmas song? |