| 100% | SLID | 4 | What Elizabeth Warren's poll numbers appear to have done in December and January |
| 33% | BACKWARDDAY | 11 | Time to do things out of order, or what appears in 21-, 26-, and 43-Across |
| 30% | SYNCTRYSTS | 10 | What Romeo and Juliet had to do? |
| 30% | SUE | 3 | What Harry and Meghan have decided to do |
| 30% | LEAKED | 6 | What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 |
| 29% | SPLIT | 5 | With 65-Across, chore on a winter to-do list ... and what appears in each set of circles |
| 29% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | SHAKER | 6 | What "salt" has been put in to make 1-Across and 6-Down? |
| 28% | LINKS | 5 | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| 28% | BANKS | 5 | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| 28% | CLOSESTHEDEAL | 13 | Has successful negotiations, and, in a way, what this puzzle does |
| 28% | ENROL | 5 | What you had to do in order to vote in last year's Australian general election |
| 28% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 28% | STARTSWITHABANG | 15 | Has an exciting opening number, say ... or what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 28% | BRIDGES | 7 | Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common |
| 28% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 28% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 27% | FOILEDYOURTAXES | 15 | What your accountant has hopefully done by April 15 in order to leave you owing nothing? |
| 27% | LETYOURHAIRDOWN | 15 | Act in an uninhibited way, and what to do three times in this grid |
| 27% | COLDFRONT | 9 | It ushers in lower temperatures ... and what the answers to starred clues can have |
| 27% | BROADWAY | 8 | Where the answers to 20-, 24-, 36- and 46-Across have appeared in lights |
| 27% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 27% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 27% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 27% | READEM | 6 | What to do "and weep," in an expression |
| 27% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 27% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 27% | SERIES | 6 | With 68-Across, end to some bingeing, and what appears six times in this puzzle |
| 27% | THREE | 5 | Trio number or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 37d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 27% | TWO | 3 | Pair count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 45d to find out what you can do next year) |