| 100% | SKIP | 4 | What pebble throwers on the river bank often try to make the stones do |
| 34% | BEGS | 4 | Tries to make bread on the sidewalk? |
| 34% | SCRAMBLEBANDS | 13 | College musicians making shapes on the field, or do what this puzzle does to the once-recognizable starred phrases |
| 33% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 33% | REDUCE | 6 | What the enthusiastically environmentally conscious try to do with just about everything |
| 32% | WENTSOLO | 8 | Tried to make it on one's own without the band (2 wds.) |
| 32% | REST | 4 | What to do on the Sabbath, per the Bible |
| 32% | ROAM | 4 | What buffalo do on the range, according to song |
| 32% | GUN | 3 | Why did the sprinter get disqualified on Leap Day? "He tried to jump the ___" |
| 31% | UNDO | 4 | What you do when you make a mistake on the computer |
| 31% | PASSHERBY | 9 | What she did to not acknowledge a girlfriend on the street? |
| 31% | STOPAZOMBIE | 11 | What any of the many weapons on "The Walking Dead" is intended to do? |
| 31% | GETARAISE | 9 | Start to make more money, and what the circled letters do? |
| 30% | WORKATIT | 8 | Try to get the job done |
| 30% | PUTSLIPSTICKONAPIG | 18 | Tries to make the unappealing attractive |
| 30% | GOGREEN | 7 | Make ecologically sound decisions, and a hint to what the starred answers do |
| 30% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 29% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 29% | LIEIN | 5 | What I try to do on Saturday mornings, but somehow a publishing deadline always seems to intervene |
| 29% | TAKEASWING | 10 | Try to hit, or what one can do with the ends of 18-, 26- and 47-Across |
| 29% | TAKEOUTTHETRASH | 15 | What to do before the answers to the starred clues will make sense |
| 29% | LICK | 4 | What people often do to a stamp before putting it on an envelope |
| 29% | UNWRAP | 6 | What Lea & Perrins invite you to do with the flavor on their website |
| 29% | PHONEHOME | 9 | What E.T. wanted to do while on Earth, per the 1982 movie |
| 29% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 29% | DOGS | 4 | They often try to make fetch happen |
| 29% | SIGN | 4 | What to do "on the dotted line" |
| 29% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 29% | HOLDTHEFLOOR | 12 | What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? |
| 29% | EXTORT | 6 | What Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer and American Media of trying to do him last year by threatening to reveal nude pictures |