| Prepares to go home, maybe | 26 |
| Prepares to go home, perhaps | 28 |
| Prepares to go? | 15 |
| Prepares to have one's second mugshot taken, say | 52 |
| Prepares to kick off | 20 |
| Prepares to launch | 18 |
| Prepares to leave port | 22 |
| Prepares to leave the stall | 27 |
| Prepares to lift prints | 23 |
| Prepares to make a Philly sub | 29 |
| Prepares to make coq au vin | 27 |
| Prepares to move | 16 |
| Prepares to open | 16 |
| Prepares to paint | 17 |
| Prepares to pass | 16 |
| Prepares to pay Paul Anka | 25 |
| Prepares to plaster | 19 |
| Prepares to play | 16 |
| Prepares to play after a break | 30 |
| Prepares to play pool, say | 26 |
| Prepares to play Scrabble? | 26 |
| Prepares to pounce | 18 |
| Prepares to pray | 16 |
| Prepares to propose | 19 |
| Prepares to propose, perhaps | 28 |
| Prepares to propose, stereotypically | 36 |
| Prepares to put away, as a sleeping bag | 39 |
| Prepares to race | 16 |
| Prepares to redo, as a quilt section | 36 |
| Prepares to remove | 18 |
| Prepares to return to sender, say | 33 |
| Prepares to run in | 18 |
| Prepares to serve, as champagne | 31 |
| Prepares to shave | 17 |
| Prepares to shoot | 17 |
| Prepares to shoot a gun | 23 |
| Prepares to shoot targets | 25 |
| Prepares to shoot water in the clown's mouth | 48 |
| Prepares to shoot, as an arrow | 30 |
| Prepares to shower | 18 |
| Prepares to spend the night | 27 |
| Prepares to start a golf round | 30 |
| Prepares to stop | 16 |
| Prepares to store, as a sail | 28 |
| Prepares to streak | 18 |
| Prepares to strike | 18 |
| Prepares to strike, as a cobra | 30 |
| Prepares to strike, as a snake | 30 |
| Prepares to strike, maybe | 25 |
| Prepares to surf, perhaps | 25 |
| Prepares to surf? | 17 |
| Prepares to switch | 18 |
| Prepares to switch? | 19 |
| Prepares to take off | 20 |
| Prepares to take the ice | 24 |
| Prepares to tell a secret | 25 |
| Prepares to testify | 19 |
| Prepares to transplant | 22 |
| Prepares to travel | 18 |
| Prepares vegetables, in a way | 29 |
| Prepares veggies | 16 |
| Prepares water for JELL-O | 25 |
| Prepares wheat, in a way | 24 |
| Prepares with hot seasoning | 27 |
| Prepares, as a corn snack | 25 |
| Prepares, as a dinner table | 27 |
| Prepares, as a disk | 19 |
| Prepares, as a fishhook | 23 |
| Prepares, as a gift | 19 |
| Prepares, as a hook | 19 |
| Prepares, as a mandarin | 23 |
| Prepares, as a morning pot | 26 |
| Prepares, as a pekoe | 20 |
| Prepares, as a proclamation | 27 |
| Prepares, as a pump | 19 |
| Prepares, as a salad | 20 |
| Prepares, as a sloop | 20 |
| Prepares, as a surface for painting | 35 |
| Prepares, as a violin bow | 25 |
| Prepares, as an alarm | 21 |
| Prepares, as an alarm clock | 27 |
| Prepares, as apples for pie | 27 |
| Prepares, as Champagne | 22 |
| Prepares, as chestnuts | 22 |
| Prepares, as cocktails | 22 |
| Prepares, as dough | 18 |
| Prepares, as flour | 18 |
| Prepares, as for action | 23 |
| Prepares, as grits | 18 |
| Prepares, as grub | 17 |
| Prepares, as leather | 20 |
| Prepares, as leftovers | 22 |
| Prepares, as mussels | 20 |
| Prepares, as onions | 19 |
| Prepares, as paint | 18 |
| Prepares, as pears | 18 |
| Prepares, as pekoe | 18 |
| Prepares, as pot roast | 22 |
| Prepares, as potatoes | 21 |
| Prepares, as presents | 21 |