| 100% | RHYME | 5 | What words don't have to do in free verse |
| 53% | TIEATIE | 7 | What you don't have to do on casual Friday |
| 46% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words |
| 45% | RESAW | 5 | What you may have to do if you don't measure twice |
| 44% | HUM | 3 | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| 44% | RENT | 4 | What homeowners don't have to pay |
| 44% | ELECTIVES | 9 | What you don't have to take |
| 43% | HOMEGAME | 8 | What players don't have to travel far for |
| 42% | ENROL | 5 | What you had to do in order to vote in last year's Australian general election |
| 42% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 40% | ICANTAKEAHINT | 13 | "You don't have to explain what you mean" |
| 40% | ORNOT | 5 | "... guess we don't have to do that" |
| 40% | LISTEN | 6 | You don't have to face the music to do it |
| 39% | CAMO | 4 | What you don't want to be spotted in |
| 39% | TOES | 4 | What witches don’t have, in Roald Dahl’s “The Witches” |
| 39% | LIE | 3 | What hips don't do, in a Shakira hit |
| 39% | RHYME | 5 | What free verse often doesn't do |
| 39% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 38% | GASUP | 5 | Something you don't need to do in a Chevy Volt |
| 38% | LOSS | 4 | What you don't want to suffer, after investing in stocks |
| 38% | END | 3 | What you don't want a good show to do |
| 38% | LEAKED | 6 | What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 |
| 38% | SKI | 3 | What to do in Aspen |
| 37% | FOLLOWINGORDERS | 15 | Doing as told, in the military ... or what the starts of the answers to starred clues can literally have? |
| 37% | OPENHOUSE | 9 | Realtor's big day ... or what each word in the answers to the starred clues can do |
| 37% | EASYA | 5 | Class where you don't have to study much to do well: 2 wds. |
| 37% | REDLIGHT | 8 | What Roxanne didn't have to put on, in a song by The Police |
| 37% | TEAR | 4 | What you don't want your pants to do when you bend over |
| 37% | LIVEFOREVER | 11 | What "I don't wanna" do, in a Zayn/Taylor Swift hit |
| 37% | ASK | 3 | What to do if you don't see what you want |