| 100% | REWROTE | 7 | What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of "A Farewell to Arms" 39 times |
| 46% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 45% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 44% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 44% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 44% | ALIBI | 5 | What a suspect claims he was doing at the time a crime was committed |
| 43% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
| 42% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 42% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 40% | TAKETHAT | 8 | "So there!" ... or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 40% | ENTER | 5 | What's the key to getting from the end of a line to the start? |
| 40% | FALLS | 5 | What a Jenga tower does at the end of the game |
| 40% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | What is said to be found at the end of a rainbow |
| 40% | ERASE | 5 | What the back end of a pencil does |
| 40% | GETONBOARD | 10 | "Join the team," or what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 40% | EATALONE | 8 | What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller |
| 39% | PROPHET | 7 | He claims to interpret the thoughts of a deity |
| 39% | BURN | 4 | "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive elimination ... or what one may do to the ends of 17-, 31-, 38- and 50-Across? |
| 39% | PENNAME | 7 | Pseudonym ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 39% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 39% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 38% | CHANGINGTHEGAME | 15 | Innovating ... or what the end of the answer to each starred entry is doing? |
| 38% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 38% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 38% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 38% | WAYTOGO | 7 | Cry of approval ... and what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 38% | BOTTOMSHEET | 11 | Bed cover ... or, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue is |
| 38% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 38% | AGE | 3 | What you would do to improve the taste and flavor of wine over time |