| 100% | RESAW | 5 | What you never have to do if you measure twice before cutting |
| 67% | RESAW | 5 | What you may have to do if you don't measure twice |
| 50% | FAINT | 5 | What you're likely to do if you have a vasovagal syncope |
| 50% | PAYCASH | 7 | What you may have to do if someone doesn't take charge? |
| 43% | CASED | 5 | What you may have done to a joint, specially if you're up to no good |
| 43% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 42% | WALKTHEBEET | 11 | What you have to do twice a day with your pet Beta vulgaris, maybe? |
| 41% | LOGIN | 5 | What you usually have to do to look at your bank statement |
| 41% | PAYCOD | 6 | What you may have to do for goods bought by mail order |
| 41% | ANTE | 4 | What to do if you'd like a hand |
| 41% | RAISELOADSOFASH | 15 | What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? |
| 41% | EAT | 3 | Something you really have to do if you want to live to a ripe old age |
| 40% | GETSMARTFRIENDS | 15 | What to do if you want to win bar trivia? |
| 40% | JOINEM | 6 | What to do if you can't beat the suckers |
| 40% | ASK | 3 | What to do if you don't see what you want |
| 40% | RINSE | 5 | What to do if you’ve gotten yourself into a lather? |
| 40% | ROW | 3 | You may have to do this if your Mercury Pro XS quits |
| 39% | MEASURE | 7 | What one should do twice before cutting once |
| 39% | ASK | 3 | What it doesn't hurt to do if you're confused, they say |
| 39% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 39% | EXIT | 4 | What to do when you have nothing left to say? |
| 39% | PEEL | 4 | What you would do to a banana before eating it |
| 38% | 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 |
| 38% | DENYIT | 6 | What to do if someone makes a false accusation about you |
| 38% | TOW | 3 | What you would do to a car that has broken down |
| 38% | MERGELEFT | 9 | What you might have to do for some highway construction … or a first hint to solving this puzzle's theme |
| 38% | DIAL | 4 | What you had to physically do to make phone calls, decades ago |
| 38% | FOLD | 4 | What you might do to shirts before putting them in a suitcase |
| 38% | VEER | 4 | What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you |
| 38% | BLEED | 5 | What you do if your skin is cut |