| 100% | THEYALSOSERVE | 13 | What standers and waiters do in tennis? |
| 50% | ELOPE | 5 | What Othello and Desdemona do in "Othello" |
| 45% | FALLBACK | 8 | What US and UK clocks do in autumn |
| 45% | SHRED | 5 | What surfers and guitarists can do, in slang |
| 44% | ELOPE | 5 | What Romeo and Juliet planned to do in Mantua |
| 44% | SCURRY | 6 | What chicks and ducks and geese better do, in song |
| 44% | PLAYINGSOLO | 11 | What Harrison Ford was doing in 1977, 1980 and 1983? |
| 44% | WENTDEAF | 8 | What Beethoven did in his 30s and 40s |
| 43% | FLEE | 4 | What Bonnie and Clyde did successfully until their ambush in 1934 in Louisiana |
| 43% | LINKS | 5 | What do websites, sausages and golf courses all have in common? |
| 43% | BANKS | 5 | What do rivers, airplanes and Wall Street all have in common? |
| 43% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 42% | CLOSESTHEDEAL | 13 | Has successful negotiations, and, in a way, what this puzzle does |
| 42% | SHED | 4 | What many dogs do in the spring and fall |
| 42% | RERAN | 5 | What Ralph Nader did in 2000, 2004 and 2008 |
| 40% | RAISETHEBAR | 11 | Set higher standards, and what you must do five times in this puzzle |
| 40% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 40% | HIDEF | 5 | TV type, and, read differently, what you do four times in this puzzle |
| 40% | GETTINGTHEW | 11 | Winning, in sports slang ... and what each of four puzzle answers is doing? |
| 40% | TIP | 3 | What to do to hats and waiters |
| 40% | LETYOURHAIRDOWN | 15 | Act in an uninhibited way, and what to do three times in this grid |
| 40% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 40% | FILLONESSHOES | 13 | Step in for another, and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 40% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 40% | BREAKSITALLDOWN | 15 | Explains in meticulous detail, and what the answer to each starred clue literally does? |
| 39% | READEM | 6 | What to do "and weep," in an expression |
| 39% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 39% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 39% | MAKEADENT | 9 | Scratch the surface, and what both words in 17-, 26-, 55- and 65-Across literally do |
| 39% | TURNTOSTONE | 11 | Petrify ... or what five alternating words in 17-, 23-, 29-, 43- and 50-Across can do? |