| 100% | RESTED | 6 | What the hare did in a race |
| 61% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in a classic song |
| 58% | OVERLAP | 7 | What the circles in a Venn diagram do |
| 57% | RHYME | 5 | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| 56% | TORTOISE | 8 | It beat the hare in a race |
| 56% | TAKETH | 6 | What the Lord sometimes does, in a classical expression |
| 55% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 55% | RAISEMONEY | 10 | Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do |
| 55% | FLYLIKEANEAGLE | 14 | What the U.S. Postal Service used to do (ending in a two under) |
| 54% | SLED | 4 | What a team of dogs pulls in the Iditarod race |
| 54% | GOROUNDANDROUND | 15 | What the filled-in circles do, in a tots' song |
| 54% | DILATES | 7 | What a pupil does in the dark |
| 53% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 53% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 53% | MELTS | 5 | What a snowman does in the hot sun |
| 53% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 53% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 51% | SHEDS | 5 | What a hairy dog does in the spring |
| 51% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 51% | NATEBITATIBETAN | 15 | What the N.B.A.'s Thurmond did in Lhasa, palindromically? |
| 51% | SETS | 4 | What the sun does in the west |
| 51% | RISE | 4 | What the sun does in the east |
| 51% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 50% | ROAM | 4 | What the buffalo do, in song |
| 50% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Last part of a race...and what 24, 39 and 51 Across do to some letters contained in 18 Across? |
| 49% | ALSORISES | 9 | What The Sun does in the 1926 Hemingway book |
| 49% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 49% | WIN | 3 | Take the gold medal in a race |
| 49% | SWEAT | 5 | What you'll do in a sauna |
| 49% | AGE | 3 | What wine bottles do in a cellar |