| 100% | JUSTIFIES | 9 | What the end does to the means |
| 68% | ALIGN | 5 | What the stars do when something is meant to be |
| 66% | GETONBOARD | 10 | "Join the team," or what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 66% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 65% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 64% | TAKETHAT | 8 | "So there!" ... or what you can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 64% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive elimination ... or what one may do to the ends of 17-, 31-, 38- and 50-Across? |
| 64% | REWROTE | 7 | What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of "A Farewell to Arms" 39 times |
| 64% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 63% | CROSSEDIT | 9 | What the chicken did to the road |
| 63% | CHANGINGTHEGAME | 15 | Innovating ... or what the end of the answer to each starred entry is doing? |
| 63% | TAILBONE | 8 | Coccyx, familiarly, or what the ends of the answers to starred clues can do? |
| 63% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 63% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 63% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 62% | BURN | 4 | "Hamilton" song about destroying love letters, or what one can do to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 61% | TAKEASWING | 10 | Try to hit, or what one can do with the ends of 18-, 26- and 47-Across |
| 61% | DROPSTHEMIC | 11 | Dramatically ends a performance, and what the answer to each starred clue does? |
| 60% | BOO | 3 | What the crowd does to a bad performance |
| 59% | GODOWNTOTHEWIRE | 15 | Remain uncertain until the very end, and what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 59% | PICK | 4 | With 39-Across, "Move faster!," or what one can do with the end of the answer to each starred clue |
| 59% | KISSED | 6 | What the prince did to wake the sleeping princess |
| 58% | SPIT | 4 | What you might do to the juice from chewed tobacco |
| 58% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "Get ready!" ... or what to do upon hearing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 58% | REENTER | 7 | What astronauts do to the atmosphere |
| 58% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 57% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 57% | ERASES | 6 | What overwriting does to the old data |
| 57% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 57% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |