| 100% | SPILT | 5 | Word in a "What's done is done" proverb |
| 69% | SPILT | 5 | Like milk in a "what's done is done" saying |
| 64% | OBEY | 4 | What a well-trained dog will do in response to its owner's commands |
| 63% | CHOPPINGENBLOC | 14 | What students in a karate class are often doing? |
| 61% | CONGA | 5 | What people in a line may be doing |
| 60% | CROSS | 5 | What words do in a puzzle like this one |
| 60% | THAW | 4 | What a frozen turkey will do in the refrigerator |
| 59% | DIE | 3 | What a laptop battery will do in the long run? |
| 58% | GOTTHEHOOK | 10 | Was yanked offstage ... or what four puzzle answers did, in a way |
| 57% | ABLY | 4 | Done in a manner as though one knows exactly what one is doing |
| 57% | BATTERINGRAMEAU | 15 | What a hailstorm is doing when composer Jean-Philippe is caught in it? |
| 56% | MELTING | 7 | What the clocks are doing in Dalí's famous artwork |
| 56% | WAG | 3 | What a happy dog's tail will do |
| 56% | TEAPOT | 6 | What "I" am, in a kid's song |
| 56% | ENTOURAGE | 9 | What may be in a star's orbit |
| 56% | LAW | 3 | What a dictator's word is |
| 56% | MARCH | 5 | What ants do in a line, which is also the third month on the calendar? |
| 56% | TYPE | 4 | What a computer's keyboard is used to do |
| 55% | ESTATE | 6 | What's passed along in a will |
| 55% | INNOCENCE | 9 | What's presumed in a trial until guilt is proven |
| 55% | DIRTYJOB | 8 | What "somebody's gotta do," in a saying |
| 55% | PLANET | 6 | What each word in "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles" is a stand-in for |
| 54% | HAVEACASE | 9 | Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do |
| 54% | HEN | 3 | What a chick's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 54% | DOE | 3 | What a fawn's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 54% | EWE | 3 | What a lamb's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 54% | SOW | 3 | What a piglet's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 54% | MARE | 4 | What a colt's mama is called, in the animal kingdom |
| 54% | PAPERCARRIERS | 13 | Morning news deliverers ... or based on a hidden word in each, what 20-, 27- and 43-Across are? |
| 54% | DROPMEALINE | 11 | "Don't be a stranger!" ... or what you have to do three times in this puzzle |