| 100% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 49% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines of a limerick do |
| 48% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 47% | RAISEMONEY | 10 | Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 45% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 44% | GEARS | 5 | What first, second, and third are, in a car |
| 44% | FLIPYOURLID | 11 | Blow a gasket, and what we've done in the circled letters |
| 43% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 42% | SYSTOLICD | 9 | What the first number represents in a certain diagnostic test |
| 41% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 41% | AGREE | 5 | What the nouns and verb in this clue doesn't do |
| 41% | FACEBOOKBUTTONS | 15 | What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are |
| 41% | LINEONE | 7 | What the first call to a receptionist might come in on |
| 41% | RESTED | 6 | What the hare did in a race |
| 41% | WAYNEGRETZKY | 12 | Hockey legend who was the first since Bobby Orr to tally 100+ assists in a season, and did so 11 times: 2 wds. |
| 41% | CIRCLEBACK | 10 | Return to a subject in conversation, and what this puzzle's author did to make the examples stand out |
| 40% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in a classic song |
| 40% | OVERLAP | 7 | What the circles in a Venn diagram do |
| 40% | DISSEDHILLARY | 13 | What the First Lady's critics did over a bottle of bathtub gin? |
| 40% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines in many Dr. Seuss books do |
| 40% | TAKETH | 6 | What the Lord sometimes does, in a classical expression |
| 40% | GOROUNDANDROUND | 15 | What the filled-in circles do, in a tots' song |
| 39% | GEARS | 5 | First, second, and reverse, in a car |
| 39% | PASSGO | 6 | Round a corner in 65-Across ... or what you must do to answer the clues for 20-, 34-, 43- and 56-Across |
| 39% | GAY | 3 | What the second letter in a certain multiletter initialism stands for |
| 39% | EVELYNASHFORD | 13 | The first track and field athlete to run 100 meters under 11 seconds in an Olympic Games and who has won a total of 5 Olympic medals: 2 wds. |
| 39% | BLANKSPACE | 10 | Second single from Taylor Swift's fifth album, that received three Grammy nominations, and had a part in the lyrics misheard by many: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ALSO | 4 | What the first "a" in "aka" stands for |
| 39% | SHEDS | 5 | What a hairy dog does in the spring |
| 38% | STARTAFIRE | 10 | Ignite something ... or what the first words of 17-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do? |