| 100% | NATURALLY | 9 | With 80-Down, Frieda's do in the strip |
| 56% | QUIET | 5 | With 4-Down, do the absolute minimum at one's job, in modern lingo |
| 53% | PLAY | 4 | With 79-Down, something to do in the yard |
| 47% | STARTFROM | 9 | With 58-Across, what four Down answers in this puzzle do |
| 47% | ERIC | 4 | With 1-Down, player of the Hulk in 2003's "Hulk" |
| 46% | BIBLE | 5 | With 4-Down, much of the Southeast U.S. is in it |
| 46% | MINUET | 6 | It's done in the form of an S or a Z |
| 46% | PLACETHEMINTHECORNERS | 21 | What to do with the items referenced in 41-Across |
| 46% | START | 5 | All the clues in this puzzle do this with 36-Across |
| 45% | BENJAMIN | 8 | With 32-Down, person associated with the scene depicted in this puzzle's grid |
| 45% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 45% | QUIFF | 5 | Man's do with upswept hair in the front |
| 45% | HARDTIME | 8 | It's done in the slammer |
| 45% | ARIANA | 6 | With 21-Across, actress who won an Oscar playing Anita in 2021's "West Side Story," 60 years after Rita Moreno did the same |
| 45% | ELO | 3 | 1970s-'80s band with the hit "Don't Bring Me Down," in brief |
| 44% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 44% | KEANU | 5 | With 7-Down, actor who played Klaatu in 2008’s “The Day the Earth Stood Still” |
| 44% | SPRINT | 6 | It's done in the short run |
| 44% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who plays Tina Turner in the music biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | TAPIOCA | 7 | With 44-Down, the "bubble" in bubble tea |
| 43% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | With the contents of this grid's circles, part of the refrain in 3-/6-/9-Down |
| 43% | ROBERT | 6 | With 49-Across, actor who won an Oscar playing Vito Corleone in 1974's "The Godfather Part II," two years after Marlon Brando did the same |
| 43% | HALF | 4 | Right down the middle, with “in” |
| 43% | TINATURNER | 10 | Singer played by Angela Bassett in the 1993 musical biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (2 wds.) |
| 43% | ELIZA | 5 | With 78-Down, character commemorated in the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |
| 43% | WARM | 4 | In the 80's, temperaturewise |
| 42% | ANGELABASSETT | 13 | Actress who played rock star Tina Turner in the 1993 film "What's Love Got to Do With It": 2 wds. |
| 42% | BRENDA | 6 | With 86-Down, popular serial comic strip beginning in 1940 |
| 42% | MILEY | 5 | With 4-Down, “Party in the U.S.A.” singer |
| 42% | SEAN | 4 | With 8-Down, Samwise Gamgee player in "The Lord of the Rings" |