| 100% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 50% | TAKETURNS | 9 | What the slalom skier learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 50% | CLEANUPTOYS | 11 | What the dog groomer learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 45% | PLAYHOUSE | 9 | What Hugh Laurie learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 43% | WED | 3 | What to do in the "Chapel of Love" |
| 43% | STOP | 4 | What to do in the name of love? |
| 42% | 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) |
| 41% | OUST | 4 | What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year |
| 41% | CHELSEAGRAMMAR | 14 | Star of a sitcom in which the First Daughter learns syntax? |
| 40% | FLYLIKEANEAGLE | 14 | What the U.S. Postal Service used to do (ending in a two under) |
| 40% | ROW | 3 | What to do "gently down the stream," in a song |
| 40% | WEARIT | 6 | What to do "if the shoe fits," in a saying |
| 40% | DEHORN | 6 | What the Government of Assam planned to do in 2014 in order to protect rhinos |
| 40% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 40% | SEARS | 5 | What to "Come see the softer side of," in a slogan |
| 38% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 38% | INDIAN | 6 | ← Member of the only team to win this many games in a season |
| 38% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines of a limerick do |
| 38% | OLYMPICMEDDLE | 13 | What the Greek gods tended to do in the lives of mortals? |
| 38% | RADIOEDIT | 9 | Shortened version of a pop song ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | PASS | 4 | “It’ll ___” (response to a confession of love in the Season 2 finale of “Fleabag”) |
| 38% | COVERALLTHEBASES | 16 | Take care of everything … or a hint to what four squares in this puzzle do |
| 37% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 37% | ACT | 3 | Anagram of the animal in 23a which is what Ryan Reynolds does for a living |
| 37% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 37% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Last part of a race...and what 24, 39 and 51 Across do to some letters contained in 18 Across? |
| 37% | EATALLCOSTS | 11 | What the backer of a failing business may do? |
| 37% | TOSS | 4 | What they do to a coin in Netflix's "The Witcher" according to Jaskier the Bard's song |
| 37% | PIECE | 5 | *Fall Humor* What did the angry pie say to the plate? "You want a ___ of me?" |
| 37% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |