| 100% | DEEPEN | 6 | What the Army Corps of Engineers got $85 million to do to the Mississippi this year |
| 42% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 37% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | RUBHERDUCKIE | 12 | What she did to get the soap off of the bath toy? |
| 35% | LEVEE | 5 | Project for the Army Corps of Engineers |
| 35% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |
| 35% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 35% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 35% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 34% | STAINEDINSTEAD | 14 | What was done to the back deck this time after the fiasco a few years ago with the paint and the raccoon? |
| 33% | LICK | 4 | What to do to the gummy part of an envelope |
| 33% | LEVEES | 6 | New Orleans infrastructure rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina |
| 33% | WED | 3 | What to do in the "Chapel of Love" |
| 33% | STOP | 4 | What to do in the name of love? |
| 32% | LEARN | 5 | __ to do; get the hang of |
| 32% | 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 |
| 32% | OUTSOURCE | 9 | To get another company to do part of the work |
| 32% | HANG | 4 | Get the __ of; learn to do |
| 32% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 32% | OVERCHARGE | 10 | Virginia's Dominion Energy Inc. did this to its customers in 2017 and 2018 to the tune of more than $300 million |
| 32% | CUTTINGTHECARDS | 15 | Part of a blackjack dealer's ritual … or what this answer is doing vis-à-vis the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 31% | STOP | 4 | What to do "in the name of love," according to The Supremes |
| 31% | REBEL | 5 | What many teenagers do, to the chagrin of their parents |
| 31% | UNITE | 5 | What Communists want workers of the world to do |
| 31% | DYEJOB | 6 | What might get to the root of a problem? |
| 31% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "Get ready!" ... or what to do upon hearing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 30% | RAKING | 6 | What you're doing to get leaves off the grass |
| 30% | REUNES | 6 | What the class of '70 does every 10 years, say |
| 30% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |