| 100% | SINKING | 7 | What the Titanic was doing at 2 am, April 15, 1912 |
| 45% | SLAYINGSLOW | 11 | What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night? |
| 42% | ALIBI | 5 | What a suspect claims he was doing at the time a crime was committed |
| 42% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 42% | TURNRED | 7 | What the focus of a 125-Across will do at its climax |
| 40% | BEARFRUIT | 9 | Be productive ... or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do? |
| 39% | RISE | 4 | What the sun will do tomorrow morning |
| 39% | ERODE | 5 | What the Himalayas will do for millennia |
| 39% | MOW | 3 | What the ground staff do at Wrigley Field |
| 39% | RIPE | 4 | What the time is, at times |
| 39% | BABERUTH | 8 | 15-Across great known as the "Sultan of Swat" who was honored with a "Day" at Yankee Stadium on April 27, 1947 (2 wds.) |
| 38% | SANK | 4 | What the Titanic did |
| 38% | CASTAVOTE | 9 | What many Americans will do on 17-Across (as hinted at by highlighting all the V's in this puzzle's answer) |
| 38% | LAUGHING | 8 | What the Cavalier is doing in Frans Hals' painting |
| 38% | SANK | 4 | What the Titanic did, famously |
| 38% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 37% | ROAR | 4 | What the MGM lion does at the beginning of a movie |
| 37% | CAMELOT | 7 | "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" show |
| 37% | CAMELOT | 7 | "I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight" musical |
| 37% | USEDFURNITURE | 13 | Some garage sale goods ... or what the answers at 15-, 19-, 33-, 41- and 62-Across have done? |
| 37% | ABIDING | 7 | What the Dude is known for doing |
| 37% | HAVEANERAFORMUSIC | 17 | What the Beatles were able to do? |
| 37% | SWELL | 5 | What the music might do at the emotional climax of a movie |
| 37% | IMOLD | 5 | Reaction to hearing what the kids are doing these days |
| 37% | SANK | 4 | What the Titanic did after hitting an iceberg |
| 37% | BEATING | 7 | What an equivocator is doing about the bush |
| 37% | BOOTHECLOWN | 11 | What a coulrophobe might do at the circus? |
| 37% | FADE | 4 | What many recorded songs do at the end |
| 37% | DIE | 3 | What the Ramones were "Too Tough to" do |
| 37% | BITE | 4 | What a fisherman hopes the fish will do |