| 100% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 52% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 45% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |
| 45% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 44% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 44% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 44% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 44% | RAINALCOHOL | 11 | What the sky might do in an inebriate's dream? |
| 43% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 43% | SAVE | 4 | What the Ctrl-S command is used to do |
| 43% | TENDER | 6 | What The Night is in Fitzgerald's 1934 novel |
| 43% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 43% | EROS | 4 | What most think the famous Piccadilly Circus statue is in London (it isn't) |
| 43% | CROWING | 7 | What cockerels are heard doing in the mornings |
| 43% | CHIRPING | 8 | What birds are usually doing in the morning |
| 43% | CAR | 3 | What the title character in Stephen King's "Christine" is |
| 42% | MELTING | 7 | Like the clocks in Salvador Dali's paintings |
| 42% | SPIT | 4 | What the nests in bird's-nest soup are made of |
| 42% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 42% | SNEEZED | 7 | What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted |
| 42% | NATEBITATIBETAN | 15 | What the N.B.A.'s Thurmond did in Lhasa, palindromically? |
| 42% | TRADINGSPACES | 13 | Reality series whose title describes what the starting sounds of eight TV titles in this puzzle are doing |
| 42% | RISE | 4 | What the sun will do tomorrow morning |
| 42% | ERODE | 5 | What the Himalayas will do for millennia |
| 41% | EPICVERSE | 9 | What the Aeneid is written in |
| 41% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 41% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 41% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 41% | LAP | 3 | What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m |
| 41% | AFOG | 4 | What the dazed are in |