| 100% | EATALONE | 8 | What to "never" do, according to the title of a 2005 best seller |
| 72% | COMEBACK | 8 | What Valerie Cherish made, according to the title of a 2005-2014 TV series |
| 62% | CATS | 4 | What Grizabella and Skimbleshanks are, according to the title of a Broadway musical |
| 51% | MILKS | 5 | What a farmhand does to the udders of a 43-Down |
| 48% | COOL | 4 | What a baker may do to bring down the temperature of a cake |
| 48% | MAKEFRIENDS | 11 | What the producers of a 10-season sitcom learned to do in kindergarten? |
| 48% | ROOT | 4 | What to do "for the home team," according to a song |
| 48% | SNAP | 4 | What a center will do to a football at the start of a play |
| 47% | OWNS | 4 | What Tennessee does to his soul, according to the B side of Orbison's "Penny Arcade" (1969) |
| 47% | WINS | 4 | What he who dies with the most toys does, according to a bumper sticker |
| 47% | STOP | 4 | What to do "in the name of love," according to The Supremes |
| 44% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 44% | MAKESWAVES | 10 | Causes a ruckus, and what the end of each answer to the starred clues does |
| 44% | REWROTE | 7 | What Hemingway claimed he did to the ending of "A Farewell to Arms" 39 times |
| 44% | RIDINGCROP | 10 | Jockey's tool, or a description of what's been done to the starred answers |
| 44% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 44% | TOSS | 4 | What they do to a coin in Netflix's "The Witcher" according to Jaskier the Bard's song |
| 44% | DYEJOB | 6 | What might get to the root of a problem? |
| 44% | HARPERLEE | 9 | Alabaman who wrote the Best Novel of the Century, according to a 1999 Library Journal poll |
| 44% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 44% | PIECE | 5 | *Fall Humor* What did the angry pie say to the plate? "You want a ___ of me?" |
| 44% | CONNECTSTHEDOTS | 15 | Makes sense of a situation ... and, literally, what the quartet of answers to starred clues does |
| 43% | MARKETOPENING | 13 | What ringing a certain bell signals, and a hint to the first words of this puzzle's movie titles |
| 43% | FETCH | 5 | What a dog may do to the last parts of 17- and 51-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 43% | GONE | 4 | Start of a 1936 best seller's title |
| 43% | EVADES | 6 | Gives the slip to the good guys, much like Joaquin Guzman has done a couple of times |
| 43% | UPKEY | 5 | What's used to scroll to the top of a window |
| 43% | BEATIT | 6 | Michael Jackson hit ... or what you can do to the start of each answer to a starred clue |
| 43% | TRADINGPLACES | 13 | Classic 1983 comedy … or a hint to what the answers to four pairs of starred clues are doing |
| 43% | RHYME | 5 | What the lines of a limerick do |