| 100% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 55% | WATERSKIING | 11 | Enjoyment when at the end of your rope? |
| 53% | SEESAWS | 7 | Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues? |
| 52% | NOOSE | 5 | Not the best thing to have at the end of your rope |
| 49% | CAPISCE | 7 | Word at the end of a sentence to mean "Do you understand?" |
| 49% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 48% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 46% | EXAM | 4 | What you give at the end of an academic year |
| 45% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 45% | SNAP | 4 | What Thanos did with his fingers at the end of "Avengers : Infinity War" |
| 45% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 45% | GIVEITSOMEJUICE | 15 | Wry suggestion at breakfast about what to feed the cat when you're out of milk? |
| 44% | REEDIT | 6 | What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed |
| 44% | CRYPTOCURRENCY | 14 | "What investment do you recommend to your fellow creatures of the night?" |
| 44% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 44% | TAKEABOW | 8 | What performers do at the end of a play |
| 44% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 43% | STOP | 4 | What to do when you see red |
| 43% | RUNSOUTOFOINK | 13 | What you hope the guy at the next desk does when he keeps grunting at your queries? |
| 42% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign |
| 42% | FINGERS | 7 | Appendages at the ends of your hands |
| 42% | CUT | 3 | What you do to your hair at a barber shop |
| 42% | EXIT | 4 | What to do when you have nothing left to say? |
| 42% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 42% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 42% | ANY | 3 | "___ questions?" question to clarify doubts at the end of a lesson that you have probably heard from your teacher |
| 42% | HOLDONTOYOURHAT | 15 | "Get ready!" ... or what to do upon hearing the ends of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 42% | FALLS | 5 | What a Jenga tower does at the end of the game |
| 42% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 41% | CHECKOUT | 8 | Leave a hotel at the end of your stay |