| 100% | RUNTHENEWYORKMARATHON | 21 | What thousands do on the first Sunday of every November |
| 49% | DREWBLOOD | 9 | What the vampires did on the first day of art class? |
| 43% | RENT | 4 | Payment made on the first of every month? |
| 41% | NEWYORKMARATHON | 15 | Event held on the first Sunday in November, and whose path is recreated in this puzzle |
| 39% | ERR | 3 | What you might do on the side of caution |
| 39% | REUNES | 6 | What the class of '70 does every 10 years, say |
| 37% | DISSEDHILLARY | 13 | What the First Lady's critics did over a bottle of bathtub gin? |
| 37% | PALINDROMICWORD | 15 | What every answer on the perimeter of this puzzle is |
| 37% | FOLLOWSUIT | 10 | Carry on the same way ... and what the ends of 17-, 25-, 35- and 48-Across do |
| 37% | BOB | 3 | What buoys do on the water |
| 37% | REST | 4 | What many do on the Sabbath |
| 37% | ROAM | 4 | What buffalo do on the range |
| 37% | RAPS | 4 | What Eminem does on the stage |
| 36% | SELECTIONS | 10 | What you're faced with making when looking at the list of names on November 3 |
| 35% | RESEED | 6 | What some tournaments do after the completion of the first round |
| 35% | REST | 4 | What to do on the Sabbath, per the Bible |
| 35% | ROAM | 4 | What buffalo do on the range, according to song |
| 35% | SAY | 3 | What you can do to the first parts of 17- and 53-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 35% | MELTS | 5 | What the Wicked Witch of the West does when Dorothy threw water on her |
| 35% | DUE | 3 | Like rent on the first of the month |
| 35% | ERR | 3 | Thing to do on the side of caution |
| 35% | ATO | 3 | Words on the first of a set, perhaps |
| 35% | MADETHEROUNDS | 13 | Checked on patients, or what the subjects of all of the starred clues did to their answers |
| 35% | STOPAZOMBIE | 11 | What any of the many weapons on "The Walking Dead" is intended to do? |
| 34% | BORED | 5 | What they did on the Kola Peninsula for roughly 20 years |
| 34% | DUE | 3 | Like many payments on the first of the month |
| 34% | DUE | 3 | Rent is this on the first of the month |
| 34% | RENT | 4 | Payment due on the first of the month, typically |
| 34% | RENT | 4 | Payment often made on the first of the month |