| 100% | STEM | 4 | What to hold when the bud's for you |
| 54% | IDLING | 6 | What you're doing when you're waiting for the light to change |
| 49% | LALA | 4 | What to sing when you don't know the words |
| 49% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 48% | PEDAL | 5 | What it's harder to do on an exercise bike when you increase the resistance |
| 48% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 47% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 47% | FOREIGNLANGUAGE | 15 | What's left when you remove the first and last letters of the answers to starred clues |
| 46% | FAME | 4 | What you might get when you climb to the top |
| 46% | PLURALS | 7 | What you get when you add an s to nouns |
| 46% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 46% | REPOT | 5 | What you do when plants get to big for their containers |
| 45% | CANIBUYAVOWEL | 13 | What you might cry when trying to answer the six starred clues? |
| 45% | TIME | 4 | What's seen on a clock ... and an invisible ingredient for farmers to grow the crops you see in the puzzle |
| 45% | MAKELEMONADE | 12 | What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across |
| 44% | GIVEITSOMEJUICE | 15 | Wry suggestion at breakfast about what to feed the cat when you're out of milk? |
| 44% | ROOF | 4 | Now you know what to look for, but where is it? (1/5) Did it fall out when Santa landed on the ___ of the house? |
| 44% | REINS | 5 | What you'll have to get hold of to ride the "one-horse open sleigh" |
| 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% | THEARCTICCIRCLE | 15 | It's round (like the dots you need to connect) and associated with Santa (like what you'll create when you do) |
| 43% | DROPTHEBEAT | 11 | Demand to a DJ, and what you must do when entering the starred answers |
| 43% | NEON | 4 | Let's go to the 1980s! What will you see here? You will see a lot of this bright shade used for clothes |
| 43% | IMMORAL | 7 | What some consider you to be for not adhering to the laws of the Torah or Quran |
| 43% | ALL | 3 | What to buy when the Tide is out? |
| 42% | WAY | 3 | "That's the ___ to go!" (what you might say when someone does a great job) |
| 42% | OTB | 3 | Place to go when you're not going to the races, for short? |
| 42% | URN | 3 | What Jeff Probst holds when he goes to "tally the votes" on "Survivor" |
| 42% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 42% | OLE | 3 | What to yell when the matador avoids the bull |
| 42% | STAND | 5 | What to do when the national anthem is played |