| 100% | SOLVE | 5 | What you are trying to do |
| 75% | SOLVE | 5 | What you're trying to do now |
| 66% | ROBOT | 5 | What you try to convince a captcha you are not |
| 66% | LOVELETTERS | 11 | What you have to do to be a crossword fan? |
| 66% | BAR | 3 | What you try to go under when doing the limbo |
| 65% | CANTTOPTHAT | 11 | “No use trying to beat what you just did” |
| 65% | SEE | 3 | "That's what I was trying to tell you!" |
| 64% | GETUP | 5 | What boxers try to do after being knocked down: 2 wds. |
| 64% | SPEND | 5 | What is done to money when you buy something |
| 63% | IMPAIR | 6 | What being over the legal limit might do to you |
| 61% | HOLDTHATTHOUGHT | 15 | "Remember what you were about to say," and what the answers to the starred clues literally do |
| 61% | JOB | 3 | What you're hired to do |
| 61% | SCARE | 5 | What haunted houses try to do |
| 61% | SCAM | 4 | What a calling "Nigerian Prince" may be trying to do |
| 60% | IVE | 3 | "That's what ___ been trying to tell you!" |
| 60% | ANNOY | 5 | What concert talker next to you will do, perhaps |
| 60% | HOLDTHEFLOOR | 12 | What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? |
| 59% | FAT | 3 | What dieters are trying to lose |
| 59% | BEAUTIFUL | 9 | What you are, according to James Blunt |
| 58% | DEBT | 4 | What you are in if you did 3d |
| 58% | HYDRATING | 9 | What you are doing when you drink water |
| 58% | OVERREACH | 9 | Try to do more than is possible, say |
| 58% | 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 |
| 57% | FAT | 3 | What you are when you need to lose weight |
| 57% | OUT | 3 | What you are after lining a shot to shortstop |
| 57% | IVE | 3 | "___ been trying to get in touch with you" |
| 57% | TIE | 3 | What you do to shoelaces |
| 57% | INTERESTS | 9 | What you like to do |
| 57% | INTENT | 6 | What you mean to do |
| 57% | THEE | 4 | What you used to be |