| 100% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 41% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 40% | MAKEAWISH | 9 | What to do when you see … [see 23-, 37-, 39-, 48- and 60-Across] |
| 36% | SEEINGSTARS | 11 | In pain, and what you're doing for the answers to 17- and 38-Across and 11- and 29-Down |
| 35% | PLACETHEMINTHECORNERS | 21 | What to do with the items referenced in 41-Across |
| 34% | MAKECONCESSIONS | 15 | Compromise, or what solvers do when filling in the first words of 17-, 23-, 40-, and 51-Across? |
| 34% | BUILDANAIRPLANE | 15 | You're television's Angus MacGyver. You're being held hostage at the top floor of a construction site in a room with a 17-Across, some 32-Across, and a few 41-Across. What do you do to escape? |
| 34% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 33% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 33% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 33% | USEFOWLLANGUAGE | 15 | What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? |
| 33% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 32% | EASYDOESIT | 10 | "Careful now" ... and a hint to what's hidden in 17-, 27- and 46-Across |
| 32% | CLEARTHEAIR | 11 | Talk things out . . . or what to do to make sense of the clues for 17-, 27-, and 44-Across |
| 32% | DOTTEDTHEIS | 11 | Attended to details, and what you've done in five places if you've completed the puzzle |
| 32% | SAY | 3 | What you can do to the first parts of 17- and 53-Across and 11- and 25-Down |
| 32% | FACEBOOKBUTTONS | 15 | What the first words in 17-, 29- and 48-Across are |
| 32% | RISEANDFALL | 11 | Move like tides and stock prices, or what the hidden words do in the answers to the starred clues? |
| 31% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 31% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 31% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 31% | BREAK | 5 | Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 31% | THEARCTICCIRCLE | 15 | It's round (like the dots you need to connect) and associated with Santa (like what you'll create when you do) |
| 30% | TURNINGAPROPHET | 15 | Punny description of the circled letters in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 30% | FREECLIMB | 9 | What 15- and 48-Across did to reach the top of the cliff: Hyph. |
| 30% | TURNONADIME | 11 | Change abruptly, or what the insides of 17-, 27- and 43-Across do? |
| 30% | LEANONME | 8 | What to do "when you're not strong," in a 1972 hit |
| 30% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 30% | CAST | 4 | Throw, and what you can do to the first words of 17-, 24-, 39-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 30% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |