| 100% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 61% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 57% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 49% | PASSNOTES | 9 | Furtively communicate in class, or what you need to do seven times in this puzzle |
| 45% | UTTERNONSENSE | 13 | What you find in eight of this puzzle's answers...or what you do when you say them aloud? |
| 45% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 44% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 44% | ENROL | 5 | What you had to do in order to vote in last year's Australian general election |
| 43% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 43% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 43% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 42% | UPSIDEDOWNCAKES | 15 | You'll flip over these desserts (and a hint to seven answers in this puzzle) |
| 42% | HITRECORDS | 10 | Seven answers in this puzzle |
| 41% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |
| 41% | TAKEAKNEE | 9 | What five answers in this puzzle do phonetically, in defiance of their clues? |
| 41% | FOLD | 4 | What you might do to shirts before putting them in a suitcase |
| 40% | PAYTHEBILLS | 11 | Make ends meet, and a hint to what four answers in this puzzle do |
| 40% | BURIEDTHELEDE | 13 | Failed to start with critically important information (as seven entries in this puzzle have literally done) |
| 40% | WORDOFTHEYEAR | 13 | Annual American Dialect Society award given to seven answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | SANDWICHSHOP | 12 | Its menu might include the ends of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | LOVELETTERS | 11 | What you have to do to be a crossword fan? |
| 40% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 39% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 39% | DROPTROU | 8 | Moon, or what three answers in this puzzle literally do |
| 39% | HARDC | 5 | It starts and ends seven answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | CRUNCHTIME | 10 | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 39% | YAWN | 4 | Act that's "contagious" (and what you might do soon after entering this answer) |
| 39% | BURYTHE | 7 | With 43-Down, make peace ... or what you must do to complete this puzzle? |
| 39% | IRONCLAD | 8 | Unbreakable, and a hint to making sense of seven answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | RESAW | 5 | What you never have to do if you measure twice before cutting |