| 100% | CROSSEDIT | 9 | What the chicken did to the road |
| 66% | JUSTIFIES | 9 | What the end does to the means |
| 62% | LAID | 4 | What a chicken did to an egg |
| 62% | BOO | 3 | What the crowd does to a bad performance |
| 61% | ANTIJOKE | 8 | "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side," e.g. |
| 61% | KISSED | 6 | What the prince did to wake the sleeping princess |
| 60% | SPIT | 4 | What you might do to the juice from chewed tobacco |
| 60% | REENTER | 7 | What astronauts do to the atmosphere |
| 60% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 59% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 59% | ERASES | 6 | What overwriting does to the old data |
| 59% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 58% | EBBS | 4 | What sea level does to reveal the intertidal zone |
| 58% | SPOIL | 5 | What "too many cooks" may do to the broth? |
| 57% | MAKEAUTURN | 10 | Change direction on the road 180 degrees ... and what you must literally do in each starred clue to understand its answer |
| 57% | LICK | 4 | What to do to the gummy part of an envelope |
| 57% | SHOOT | 5 | What one is not supposed to do to the messenger |
| 57% | PROVEHISMETAL | 13 | What the pirate hopes to do by biting the doubloon? |
| 57% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 57% | RAKING | 6 | What you're doing to get leaves off the grass |
| 57% | HIBERNATE | 9 | What many animals do in the winter to save energy |
| 57% | STEAL | 5 | What a base runner might do to the next base |
| 57% | SKATE | 5 | What one must do to win the Ted Lindsay Award |
| 57% | REBEL | 5 | What many teenagers do, to the chagrin of their parents |
| 57% | ALIGN | 5 | What the stars do when something is meant to be |
| 57% | NINETY | 6 | It's dangerous to do on the road |
| 57% | HANDLEBARS | 10 | What to grab for the road? |
| 56% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 56% | WHY | 3 | "___ did the chicken cross the road?" |
| 56% | HAVEANERAFORMUSIC | 17 | What the Beatles were able to do? |