| 100% | COUGHEDUPTHEDOE | 15 | What the mountain lion did with the whitetail stuck in its throat? |
| 42% | TYPES | 5 | What the Red Cross does with its donations |
| 41% | MASSACRES | 9 | What the guy in Texas with the chainsaw does |
| 41% | PLACETHEMINTHECORNERS | 21 | What to do with the items referenced in 41-Across |
| 38% | RESTART | 7 | Begin from the beginning, or what a person might do when they hit a creative block, and a word with 16a hidden in it |
| 37% | BOWL | 4 | Salad holder ... or what medium pacers do with the ball in cricket |
| 37% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" actress who played Reva in "Boyz n the Hood": 2 wds. |
| 37% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 36% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | CATCHES | 7 | What the early bird does with the worm |
| 36% | PROFESSORPLUM | 13 | He might have done it with the candlestick in the study |
| 36% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 36% | TINATURNER | 10 | Singer played by Angela Bassett in the 1993 musical biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 36% | RAINED | 6 | What it did in the Atacama in June 2017 |
| 36% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do with It" singer nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 36% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who played rock star Tina Turner in the 1993 film "What's Love Got to Do With It": 2 wds. |
| 35% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Hop to it ... or what to do to the various eggs in this puzzle's shaded squares? |
| 35% | SENDS | 5 | What Mr. Salieri did with his regards to Tommy Angelo, through Vito, in the video game "Mafia" |
| 35% | ROAR | 4 | What the MGM lion does at the beginning of a movie |
| 35% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | "What's Love Got to Do with It" Oscar nominee who earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1983 (2 wds.) |
| 35% | SET | 3 | What the sun would do in the evening |
| 35% | LEAKED | 6 | What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 |
| 35% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 34% | CANDYLAND | 9 | Board game with the Peppermint Stick Forest and the Gumdrop Mountain in the National Toy Hall of Fame (2 wds.) |
| 34% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 34% | REAR | 4 | What your American Saddlebred might do when you stick the rowels in too hard |
| 34% | TUNE | 4 | What a guitarist would do with the instrument before playing |
| 34% | USAF | 4 | Org. with the ad slogan "It's not science fiction. It's what we do every day" |
| 34% | BURSTOUT | 8 | With 37-Across, lose it ... or what 12 answers in this puzzle appear to do |