| 100% | PUSHTHEBOUNDARIES | 17 | What edgy films do, just like 13 films in this puzzle |
| 53% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 51% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 48% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 47% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 47% | FLIPS | 5 | What each word of six or more letters in this puzzle does |
| 47% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 47% | SUIT | 4 | What the 13 circled things in this puzzle constitute |
| 46% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 46% | GOESUPANDDOWN | 13 | What each group of circled words in this puzzle does |
| 46% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 46% | REPEAT | 6 | What three-letter words do in five answers in this puzzle |
| 46% | PUTONTHESPOT | 12 | Pressured, or what five squares in this puzzle do |
| 45% | RHYME | 5 | What Across clue-and-answer pairings in this puzzle do, every time |
| 45% | GOOUTONALIMB | 12 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do |
| 45% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 45% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 45% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 45% | PARTTHEREDSEA | 13 | Emulate Moses ... and what four black squares do in this puzzle |
| 45% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 44% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Hop to it ... or what to do to the various eggs in this puzzle's shaded squares? |
| 44% | EAU | 3 | What remains if you remove all the consonants from 13 long answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | ENDING | 6 | Conclusion ... or, in three parts, what four answers in this puzzle unexpectedly do |
| 44% | HIDEF | 5 | TV type, and, read differently, what you do four times in this puzzle |
| 44% | CROSSEDABEAR | 12 | Betrayed Paddington? … or what 20-, 34- and 41-Across did in this puzzle |
| 44% | LITTHEOLYMPICCAULDRON | 21 | What this puzzle’s featured athletes did in the years indicated |
| 43% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 43% | VOICEOVERARTIST | 15 | Animated film specialist, or what can be found literally three times in this puzzle |
| 43% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |