| 100% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 59% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 56% | PEST | 4 | With 65-Across, extermination ... or what can be done to 10 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 56% | CLEANUP | 7 | Response to 40-Across ... or what can be done to 12 answers in this puzzle without affecting their clues? |
| 55% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 55% | IMAGINARYNUMBER | 15 | What ends each of five answers in this puzzle, in a way? |
| 52% | REPEAT | 6 | What three-letter words do in five answers in this puzzle |
| 51% | FLIMFLAMARTISTS | 15 | People who do what’s at the ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 50% | PUTONTHESPOT | 12 | Pressured, or what five squares in this puzzle do |
| 49% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 49% | RHYME | 5 | What Across clue-and-answer pairings in this puzzle do, every time |
| 49% | GOOUTONALIMB | 12 | Act riskily ... or what three answers in this puzzle do |
| 49% | DOUBLEDIP | 9 | Commit a party foul, in a way … or what five answers do in this puzzle? |
| 49% | AREYOUFORREAL | 13 | "Seriously?!" … or what one might ask of the answers to starred clues in this puzzle? |
| 49% | CROSSDRESSING | 13 | "Mrs. Doubtfire" plot device - or what the letters in this clue's answer do five times? |
| 48% | WATERCOLORS | 11 | Some Winslow Homer art ... or what five answers in this puzzle are? |
| 48% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 48% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 47% | FALLINGO | 8 | Quarrel ... or a feature of five answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 47% | RAISEDTHEBAR | 12 | Elevated expectations ... or what this puzzle's maker did to five answers in this puzzle? |
| 47% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 47% | HQS | 3 | Command ctrs., and a description of five answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 47% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 47% | CLIMBSTHELADDER | 15 | Advances through corporate ranks … and what the answer to each starred clue in this puzzle does |
| 47% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | What might end the year, and a hint to five answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | REPRISES | 8 | Repeated musical passages, and what happens in five answers in this puzzle |
| 47% | RIPPEDABS | 9 | Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? |
| 46% | LOOPS | 5 | What the paths of three answers in this puzzle include |