| 100% | MEET | 4 | What to do with the Parents, Dave, and Joe Black |
| 49% | PLACETHEMINTHECORNERS | 21 | What to do with the items referenced in 41-Across |
| 49% | INVEST | 6 | What to do with stocks and bonds |
| 46% | HIDE | 4 | With 73-Across, space-saving furniture, and what the answers to the starred clues each do |
| 46% | SPLIT | 5 | With 41- and 45-Across, go Dutch, or what the answers to the starred clues do? |
| 46% | USEAN | 5 | With 60-Across, disguise one's identity ... and what the answers to starred clues subtly do? |
| 46% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 46% | TIDAL | 5 | Having to do with the rise and fall of the sea |
| 45% | NAUTICAL | 8 | Having to do with sailing and the sea |
| 45% | EAT | 3 | ... and what to do with them |
| 44% | BRAKEJOBS | 9 | Garage offerings, and a phonetic hint to what the black squares in rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do |
| 44% | TAKEFIVE | 8 | Get some rest … or what to do with the end of the previous answer to solve each starred clue |
| 44% | STAINEDINSTEAD | 14 | What was done to the back deck this time after the fiasco a few years ago with the paint and the raccoon? |
| 43% | COMINGINHOT | 11 | Arriving with great speed, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues are doing? |
| 43% | THEARCTICCIRCLE | 15 | It's round (like the dots you need to connect) and associated with Santa (like what you'll create when you do) |
| 42% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 41% | RURAL | 5 | To do with the countryside |
| 41% | CORPOREAL | 9 | To do with the body |
| 41% | MENTAL | 6 | To do with the mind |
| 41% | NASAL | 5 | To do with the nose |
| 41% | CRANIAL | 7 | To do with the skull |
| 41% | CECAL | 5 | To do with the cecum |
| 41% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 41% | REBEL | 5 | What many teenagers do, to the chagrin of their parents |
| 41% | SPEAKTHEANSWERS | 15 | What to do with 14 Across |
| 41% | PIECEOFCAKE | 11 | Simple thing to do ... and what each starred clue's answer ends with? |
| 40% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do with It" singer nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 40% | TINATURNER | 10 | "What's Love Got to Do With It" singer inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 40% | LEAVEMEOUTOFIT | 14 | "I want nothing to do with this!," and how to make the six starred clues match their answers |
| 40% | TAKEASWING | 10 | Try to hit, or what one can do with the ends of 18-, 26- and 47-Across |