| 100% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 51% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 44% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 43% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 43% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 43% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 42% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 42% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 41% | CROWING | 7 | What cockerels are heard doing in the mornings |
| 41% | CHIRPING | 8 | What birds are usually doing in the morning |
| 41% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 41% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 41% | RISE | 4 | What the sun will do tomorrow morning |
| 41% | ERODE | 5 | What the Himalayas will do for millennia |
| 40% | EPICVERSE | 9 | What the Aeneid is written in |
| 40% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 40% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 40% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 40% | AFOG | 4 | What the dazed are in |
| 39% | SET | 3 | What the sun would do in the evening |
| 39% | PURSUESPERSEUS | 14 | What the Gorgon Stheno does in Greek myth? |
| 39% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in song |
| 39% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 39% | SINKING | 7 | What the Titanic was doing at 2 am, April 15, 1912 |
| 39% | ATOM | 4 | What the woman is holding in the Emmy statuette |
| 39% | LASH | 4 | What ousted member will do in press (with "out") |
| 39% | BATHING | 7 | Could be done in the sun or the tub |
| 39% | RISES | 5 | What the 5-Down does in the east |
| 39% | ABIDING | 7 | What the Dude is known for doing |
| 39% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does in the west |