| 100% | REINS | 5 | What you'll have to get hold of to ride the "one-horse open sleigh" |
| 47% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 44% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 42% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 42% | CANDYSHOP | 9 | 50 Cent hit with the lyric “One taste of what I got / I’ll have you spending all you got” |
| 41% | SITONIT | 7 | Hold in abeyance, and what you can do to the ends of 17-, 27-, 46- and 61-Across |
| 41% | LIKABLE | 7 | Having the qualities of someone you might want to get a beer with, say |
| 40% | POD | 3 | What you need to split open to get the beans out |
| 40% | MAKEA | 5 | With 69- and 70-Across, get to the point . . . or what you’ll need to do with some of the answers in this puzzle? |
| 39% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 38% | EIGHT | 5 | Number of countries you'll have to find before finding the contest answer |
| 37% | RAKING | 6 | What you're doing to get leaves off the grass |
| 37% | ABYSS | 5 | You'll never get to the bottom of this |
| 36% | TEN | 3 | Roll that could get you from one corner of a Monopoly board to the next |
| 36% | BOARD | 5 | You'll need a famous one of these to figure out the contest |
| 36% | BIT | 3 | Piece of metal held in the mouth of a horse by reins in order to control the animal while riding |
| 36% | CONDO | 5 | If you own one of these, you'll have membership in the homeowners association |
| 36% | OCRAS | 5 | Somewhat archaic spelling of those pods that you have to cook with vinegar in order to get rid of the slime |
| 36% | FILE | 4 | What you can do to all of the starred answers |
| 35% | THESE | 5 | One of ___ days, he'll get what's coming to him... |
| 35% | TOE | 3 | What you might use to test the temperature of a bath |
| 35% | RUBHERDUCKIE | 12 | What she did to get the soap off of the bath toy? |
| 35% | AIROUT | 6 | Open a window to get rid of the odors inside: 2 wds. |
| 35% | ARTICHOKE | 9 | Something you might want to get to the heart of? |
| 35% | HAIRCUT | 7 | Go to the barber shop to get one of these |
| 35% | BED | 3 | What you get out of in the morning |
| 35% | GETONBOARD | 10 | "Join the team," or what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 35% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 34% | OSCARWINNER | 11 | What you get upon reading aloud the answers to the seven italicized clues |
| 34% | DELETE | 6 | Rhyme of 49-Down, and what you might do to one |