| 100% | MEDIADIET | 9 | What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively |
| 42% | BREAK | 5 | What one may do to 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 41% | TAPS | 4 | Bugle tune ... or what one does to 1-, 18-, 35-, 43- and 62-Across |
| 41% | CABLE | 5 | What you subscribe to in order to watch Bravo and History Channel |
| 40% | SEEYOUINCOURT | 13 | Words before legal action … or what one might exclaim to 19-, 24- and 45-Across? |
| 40% | DELETE | 6 | Rhyme of 49-Down, and what you might do to one |
| 40% | RESERVE | 7 | What one can do to the last parts of 17- and 58-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 40% | THROW | 5 | What one might do to the last parts of 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 39% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive elimination ... or what one may do to the ends of 17-, 31-, 38- and 50-Across? |
| 39% | INREVERSE | 9 | One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means |
| 38% | TIME | 4 | What you read on a clock, and something that seems impossible to find on busy days |
| 38% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 38% | PATHFINDERS | 11 | Explorers ... and ones who can determine what the answers to starred clues have in common? |
| 37% | HEEDS | 5 | Listens to and obeys |
| 37% | GOTH | 4 | One who might dress in black and listen to emo music |
| 37% | SPELLBOUND | 10 | Entranced … or what one can do by reading the starts of 17-, 24-, 34-, 44- and 50-Across in order? |
| 37% | OBEYS | 5 | Listens to Mom and Dad |
| 37% | ABARDSEYEVIEW | 13 | What one gets reading poetry? |
| 37% | ISM | 3 | What one might subscribe to |
| 37% | ITCH | 4 | What one wants to scratch |
| 37% | EAT | 3 | Listen to one's gut? |
| 37% | OBEY | 4 | Listen to Mom and Dad |
| 36% | LIFE | 4 | "Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious ___?": Mary Oliver |
| 36% | DIFFER | 6 | What one might beg to do |
| 36% | HOTBATH | 7 | What one may draw to relax |
| 36% | EAT | 3 | Listen to one's growling stomach |
| 36% | EGOBOOSTS | 9 | Lifts for one's self-esteem, and what's been given to the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | RUMI | 4 | Celebrated Persian poet who authored "Masnavi" and is considered to be one of the most widely read poets |
| 36% | LATHERS | 7 | What one does before rinsing and repeating |
| 36% | SWEAR | 5 | What one may do up and down |