| 100% | LASTSTEP | 8 | What to do just before you're done |
| 62% | TIE | 3 | What you do to your shoelaces before walking |
| 61% | PEEL | 4 | What you would do to a banana before eating it |
| 60% | UNTIE | 5 | What you do to your shoelaces before taking your shoes off |
| 60% | UNTIE | 5 | What you do to your laces before taking off your shoes |
| 59% | RESAW | 5 | What you never have to do if you measure twice before cutting |
| 59% | FOLD | 4 | What you might do to shirts before putting them in a suitcase |
| 59% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 57% | JOB | 3 | What you're hired to do |
| 57% | EDIT | 4 | What you do to a picture with filters before posting it |
| 57% | CANTTOPTHAT | 11 | “No use trying to beat what you just did” |
| 57% | SOLVE | 5 | What you're trying to do now |
| 56% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 56% | LEANONME | 8 | What to do "when you're not strong," in a 1972 hit |
| 56% | RAKING | 6 | What you're doing to get leaves off the grass |
| 56% | BOSS | 4 | "You're the ___" ("Just tell me what to do") |
| 55% | WRAPITUP | 8 | "Time to finish what you're doing": 3 wds. |
| 55% | SAYUNCLE | 8 | Give up, or what you might do before the starts of the answers to starred clues |
| 55% | RAISEEMUP | 9 | Words before a toast, and what you can do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 55% | GETSET | 6 | What to do before going |
| 54% | FAKEIT | 6 | What to do before being successful? |
| 54% | BEARIT | 6 | What to do while you grin |
| 54% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 54% | EAT | 3 | What you're not usually allowed to do in a library |
| 54% | RESTUP | 6 | What to do before a marathon, perhaps |
| 54% | STOP | 4 | What to do when you see red |
| 54% | EXHALE | 6 | What to do after you breathe in |
| 53% | FAINT | 5 | What you're likely to do if you have a vasovagal syncope |
| 53% | OBEY | 4 | What a hypnotist may tell you to do |
| 53% | SELL | 4 | What a bearish stockbroker wants you to do |