| 100% | REVSUP | 6 | What the lady in the Mustang does to indicate she'd like to drag while sitting next to you at the red light |
| 29% | EIGHT | 5 | Number that sounds like "ate" or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 7d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 28% | STOP | 4 | What to do at a red light |
| 27% | AGITATE | 7 | What "singer" in seat next to you will do |
| 27% | STOP | 4 | What to do at a red traffic light |
| 27% | STOP | 4 | What you do when the traffic light goes red |
| 27% | EAR | 3 | What you tug in charades to indicate "sounds like" |
| 27% | SKI | 3 | What you might do at Aspen in the winter |
| 26% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 26% | TWO | 3 | Pair count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 45d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 26% | FOUR | 4 | Beatles count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 35d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 26% | THREE | 5 | Trio number or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 37d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 26% | STOP | 4 | What a red traffic light tells you to do |
| 25% | SEVEN | 5 | Oft lucky number or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 18d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 25% | NINE | 4 | Cat lives count or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 3d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 25% | FIVE | 4 | Half of a decade or the next number in a New Year's countdown (go to 34d to find out what you can do next year) |
| 25% | READ | 4 | *Light ___, a casual or undemanding book like one you'd want to read at the beach |
| 25% | RUNSOUTOFOINK | 13 | What you hope the guy at the next desk does when he keeps grunting at your queries? |
| 25% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 25% | BLOW | 4 | What you'd do to your lit birthday candles |
| 24% | HOLDTHEFLOOR | 12 | What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? |
| 24% | STRIKEOUT | 9 | Flail at home plate ... or what to do as you enter the answer to the previous clue |
| 24% | ANTE | 4 | What to do if you'd like a hand |
| 24% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 24% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 24% | JUMPOVERBOARDERS | 16 | What the acrobatic landlady liked to do? |
| 24% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 24% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 23% | BUILDANAIRPLANE | 15 | You're television's Angus MacGyver. You're being held hostage at the top floor of a construction site in a room with a 17-Across, some 32-Across, and a few 41-Across. What do you do to escape? |
| 23% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |