| 100% | CROSS | 5 | With 57-Across, what you must do four times to solve this puzzle |
| 57% | RUNUPATAB | 9 | Accumulate charges … or what you must do to answer four clues in this puzzle |
| 49% | BURYTHE | 7 | With 43-Down, make peace ... or what you must do to complete this puzzle? |
| 48% | SPINCLASSES | 11 | Intense cycling sessions … or what you must do to complete the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 47% | RAISETHEBAR | 11 | Set higher standards, and what you must do five times in this puzzle |
| 47% | TRANSFER | 8 | With 119 Across, one changing schools ... and what you must do between seven pairs of schools in this puzzle |
| 46% | PASSNOTES | 9 | Furtively communicate in class, or what you need to do seven times in this puzzle |
| 46% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |
| 45% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 32 Across, do as you're told ... and what you must do while solving the answers to the starred clues? |
| 44% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 43% | CONNECTALLTHEOS | 15 | What to do after completing this puzzle, with four straight lines |
| 43% | CRUNCHTIME | 10 | Do-or-die moment, or what you must do to this puzzle's theme answers |
| 43% | RUNNING | 7 | With 57-Across, 1977 Jackson Browne album ... or a hint to what's depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 42% | CUTRATE | 7 | Cheap, and what you must do to five Across answers to make them match their clues |
| 41% | COUNT | 5 | With 61-Across, advice for an insomniac ... or what you can do 12 times in this puzzle, reading across and down (not including this answer) |
| 41% | HIDEF | 5 | TV type, and, read differently, what you do four times in this puzzle |
| 41% | CUTOUTTHEMIDDLEMAN | 18 | What you have to do before entering seven answers in this puzzle? |
| 41% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 41% | CUTOUTTHE | 9 | With 58-Across, buy or sell direct ... or what to do in this puzzle three times? |
| 41% | TENPM | 5 | Appropriate time to solve this puzzle? |
| 39% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Brain trust, and what you need to add to solve 16 clues in this puzzle |
| 39% | CUTONBOLDLINES | 14 | First step of instructions for what to do with this finished puzzle |
| 38% | INTHECORNER | 11 | This puzzle's answer to 35-Across (spelled out four times) |
| 38% | BREAKALEG | 9 | What you must do, to answer each pair of starred clues |
| 37% | UTURN | 5 | One of four required to solve this puzzle |
| 36% | TAKEITDOWNANOTCH | 16 | Reduce one’s excitement slightly ... or what you have to do to the final letter of five long answers in this puzzle? |
| 36% | DEER | 4 | With 73 Across, road sign that hints at something found four times in this puzzle (as well as its shape) |
| 36% | EASE | 4 | What you might solve a puzzle with |
| 36% | GOINGIN | 7 | With 43-Across, what this puzzle is doing |
| 36% | PEN | 3 | What you might be doing this puzzle in |