| 100% | CARBOLOAD | 9 | What many runners do before a marathon |
| 61% | RESTUP | 6 | What to do before a marathon, perhaps |
| 56% | PANTS | 5 | What a marathon runner does, but rarely wears? |
| 51% | STRETCH | 7 | What many people do before they exercise |
| 49% | ACTS | 4 | What many a player does |
| 48% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 48% | LAZE | 4 | What many do on a day off |
| 48% | SLEEPIN | 7 | What many do after a late night |
| 47% | SKI | 3 | What many tourists do during a winter trip to Vail |
| 47% | DARKEN | 6 | What skies do before a storm |
| 47% | STRETCH | 7 | Runners do this before a race to elongate muscles |
| 46% | RESTUP | 6 | What to do before a big race, maybe |
| 45% | SATONAWALL | 10 | What Humpty Dumpty did before having a great fall |
| 45% | DEBATE | 6 | What candidates do a lot together before elections |
| 44% | HITSEND | 7 | What you do usually right before noticing a typo |
| 43% | PEEL | 4 | What you would do to a banana before eating it |
| 43% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 43% | STEAL | 5 | What a base runner might do to the next base |
| 43% | AIM | 3 | What a marksman does before shooting |
| 42% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 42% | ACHE | 4 | What your feet might do after a marathon |
| 41% | LICK | 4 | What people often do to a stamp before putting it on an envelope |
| 41% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 41% | FOLD | 4 | What you might do to shirts before putting them in a suitcase |
| 40% | POLISHJOKE | 10 | What a comedian might do before going onstage? |
| 40% | INSIDELANE | 10 | What many runners try to reach |
| 40% | CARBS | 5 | Things to "load" before a marathon |
| 40% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 40% | EDIT | 4 | What you do to a picture with filters before posting it |
| 39% | SMILE | 5 | What you should never tell a woman to do more |