| 100% | MAKEAWISH | 9 | What to do when you see … [see 23-, 37-, 39-, 48- and 60-Across] |
| 53% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 50% | STOP | 4 | What to do when you see red |
| 49% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign |
| 49% | ADD | 3 | What to do when you see a plus sign in Math |
| 45% | USEFOWLLANGUAGE | 15 | What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? |
| 44% | DRAW | 4 | Something you can do to the starts of 17-, 21-, 37-, 53- and 60-Across |
| 42% | GEEWHIZ | 7 | Beaver Cleaver expletive ... or what you might need to be to answer 18-, 23-, 51- and 60-Across? |
| 42% | GOONAHEAD | 9 | "I'll catch up!" ... or what the ends of 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across do? |
| 42% | MADEREPAIRS | 11 | Fixed things ... or, in four parts, what you've done when filling in 18-, 26-, 37- and 52-Across? |
| 42% | CAST | 4 | Throw, and what you can do to the first words of 17-, 24-, 39-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 40% | EXIT | 4 | What to do when you have nothing left to say? |
| 40% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 40% | ACCELERATE | 10 | Bad thing to do when you see red |
| 40% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 40% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 39% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Perform in the theater ... and what can be done to the end of 17-, 25-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 39% | GUNIT | 5 | Bad thing to do when you see a yellow light |
| 39% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 39% | MILDSALSA | 9 | What 17-, 25-, 39-, 49- and 60-Across and 3-Down combine to make |
| 38% | ASK | 3 | What to do if you don't see what you want |
| 38% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you need to do to seven Across answers for their clues to make sense |
| 38% | MATCHINGPJS | 11 | Some Xmas card attire ... or a hint to 18-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across |
| 38% | PUTONASHOW | 10 | Go over the top, or a hint to 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across |
| 38% | WEATHERFORECAST | 15 | Local news feature suggested by the answers to 17-, 23-, 48- and 60-Across |
| 38% | BREAK | 5 | What one may do to 17- and 60-Across and 11- and 28-Down |
| 38% | ANALYSIS | 8 | What you do when you go to therapy |
| 38% | PAY | 3 | What you need to do when buying something |
| 37% | TEAR | 4 | What you don't want your pants to do when you bend over |
| 37% | HOMESTRETCH | 11 | Last part of a race...and what 24, 39 and 51 Across do to some letters contained in 18 Across? |