| 100% | KNIT | 4 | What you hope your fibula does after the break caused by your lousy downhill skills |
| 37% | RIRE | 4 | What you hope they'll do during your gig at the Montreal Comedy Festival |
| 35% | RUNSOUTOFOINK | 13 | What you hope the guy at the next desk does when he keeps grunting at your queries? |
| 31% | TAN | 3 | What you hope to get by laying in the sun |
| 31% | ORDER | 5 | What you would do after going through the restaurant menu |
| 29% | EARTH | 5 | What you might "come down to" after having your head in the clouds |
| 29% | BEGINWATCHING | 13 | What you might do after the movie previews are finally over? |
| 29% | FEELNOPANE | 10 | What you do when you put your hand through a broken window? |
| 29% | WAIT | 4 | What you'd do between the interview and callback for your dream job |
| 29% | SHOP | 4 | What you may do on the Friday after Thanksgiving as a family tradition |
| 29% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
| 28% | PROVEHISMETAL | 13 | What the pirate hopes to do by biting the doubloon? |
| 28% | BUILDABEAR | 10 | What you can do by combining the last words of 17-, 30- and 44-Across |
| 28% | BREAKALEG | 9 | Well wishes before a performance, and what you do by filling in the circles |
| 28% | WATERSKI | 8 | What to do when you're at the end of your rope? |
| 27% | MAKEAFACE | 9 | Grimace, and what you can do by putting the ends of the starred answers together |
| 27% | ODOR | 4 | What you hope will come out in the wash |
| 27% | REAR | 4 | What your American Saddlebred might do when you stick the rowels in too hard |
| 27% | CREATEDAMONSTER | 15 | Emulated Dr. Frankenstein ... or what you did after you filled in the shaded parts of 17-, 23-, 50- and 61-Across? |
| 27% | 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 |
| 26% | SEE | 3 | What you use your eyes to do |
| 26% | RESULTS | 7 | What you wait for after doing exams |
| 26% | FOILEDYOURTAXES | 15 | What your accountant has hopefully done by April 15 in order to leave you owing nothing? |
| 26% | BRAKEONTHROUGH | 14 | "What did you try to do after the caution flag came out?" [The Doors, 1967] |
| 26% | AFISHOUTOFWATER | 15 | Misfit ... or what you get after the sequence described by the ends of 17-, 21-, 57- and 63-Across? |
| 26% | MEET | 4 | ___ and greet, what you'd do with potential employers at the crucial first stage of getting your dream job |
| 26% | CRYPTOCURRENCY | 14 | "What investment do you recommend to your fellow creatures of the night?" |
| 26% | NAMEDROPS | 9 | Shows off one's connections, or what you'll do by speaking the starts of 17-, 28- and 43-Across |
| 26% | PARACHUTE | 9 | What you hope opens after jumping from a plane |
| 26% | MORALHIGHGROUND | 15 | What you take when you do the right thing |