| 100% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 50% | MAKEITADOUBLE | 13 | Request to a bartender, and what must be done to the last words of 20-, 30-, 36-, and 47-Across for the answers to match their clues |
| 47% | PLAYINGWITHFIRE | 15 | Doing something risky ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 24-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 45% | OUTOFDANGER | 11 | Safe ... or how the last words of 16-, 23- and 49-Across are made? |
| 44% | DRESSINGS | 9 | What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are |
| 44% | BURRITOFILLINGS | 15 | What the last words of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across might be |
| 43% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 42% | TAKEANL | 7 | Accept defeat, informally … or what the last words of 19-, 24- and 49-Across do vis-à-vis the first |
| 42% | BUMPHEADS | 9 | Disagree ... or, literally, what the last words of 18-, 23-, 35-, and 49-Across can be |
| 42% | EYE | 3 | With 65-Across, what the last words of 18-, 35- and 56-Across are to each other |
| 42% | CARRIESNOWEIGHT | 15 | Has little significance ... and to all intents and purposes, what the first word of 17-, 27- and 48-Across does |
| 42% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 41% | IBELIEVEICANFLY | 15 | R. Kelly hit whose last title word is aptly rhymed with "sky" in the lyrics ... and a hint to the starts of the other four longest puzzle answers |
| 41% | SAUSAGELINK | 11 | Breakfast side order ... or a hint to the last words of 18-, 23-, 34- and 49-Across |
| 41% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
| 41% | BUILDINGSPECS | 13 | Parameters for a construction project . . . or, read another way, what the last words of 17-, 23-, 49-, and 54-Across might be used for? |
| 40% | GETPLAYED | 9 | Fall for it, or what can happen to the last words of 17-, 25-, 38- and 56-Across |
| 40% | HOLDWATER | 9 | Be logical ... or what the last words of the answers to the five starred clues can do? |
| 40% | OFFTHEWALL | 10 | Bizarre, and what the ends of 16-, 22-, 37-, and 49-Across are when redecorating |
| 40% | FACEDTHEMUSIC | 13 | Accepted the consequences of one's actions, and what the artists did with the hits in this puzzle? |
| 40% | HIDEINPLAINSIGHT | 16 | What words concealed by the other four longest Across answers do ... and also, what each of them is |
| 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 |
| 40% | SPELLBOOK | 9 | Wizard's reference, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues do |
| 40% | CLEARTHETABLE | 13 | What people are likely to do in response to 20-, 27- and 44-Across? |
| 39% | FETCH | 5 | What a dog may do to the last parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 39% | COLLECTORSITEMS | 15 | Things gathered by aficionados ... or what the ends of 16-, 24-, 49- and 59-Across can be? |
| 39% | TURNDOWNANOSCAR | 15 | What 18 and 52 Across were the only performers to do |
| 39% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Last part of a race...and what 24, 39 and 51 Across do to some letters contained in 18 Across? |
| 39% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |