| 100% | BEAMMEUP | 8 | "I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across |
| 37% | BACKUPTHETRUCK | 14 | "Wait, what did you just say?," or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 35% | NEUROPLASTICITY | 15 | Brain's ability to form new connections ... as represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 35% | STBERNARD | 9 | French abbot thought to have originated the saying depicted symbolically in this puzzle |
| 34% | UPLOADS | 7 | Puts on a server, say ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 34% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 34% | WRAPSUP | 7 | Finishes, and a hint to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 33% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 33% | CHARACTERSKETCHES | 17 | [aria-label] Depiction of "Nihao" in simplified Chinese * This puzzle has an important note. Tap the "i" to read. * |
| 33% | LITTLEHELPHERE | 14 | "I could use some assistance" ... and a hint to the contents of three squares in this puzzle |
| 32% | FURNITUREASSEMBLY | 17 | Ikea task, and a task that can be applied to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 32% | OURBODIES | 9 | "Bans off ___" (Pro-choice rallying cry, and a hint to the circles in this puzzle) |
| 31% | DREAM | 5 | "Whenever I want you, all I have to do" is this, in an Everly Brothers hit |
| 31% | LIONSDEN | 8 | Hostile place ... and where to find the circled animals in this puzzle |
| 31% | WIDER | 5 | What I seem to have gotten as the years have passed by |
| 31% | YOUDONTSAY | 10 | "Is that so?," or a hint to the communication methods found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 31% | TOPHAT | 6 | Something worn by the answer to each starred clue, as represented graphically in this puzzle's grid |
| 31% | FATTONY | 7 | The Simpsons character who says, "Now, who wants to sleep with the fishes ... because I brought this Finding Nemo bedspread." |
| 31% | EGS | 3 | I'm happy to say that there are none of these in this puzzle's clues! |
| 31% | CELINEDION | 10 | "It's All Coming Back to Me" singer who plays herself in 45-Across (2 wds.) |
| 31% | INSIDEOUT | 9 | Thoroughly … or how to read the four Across answers with parentheses in this puzzle |
| 31% | DONOTBEND | 9 | Mail instruction sometimes ignored, as suggested by the words in this puzzle's circles |
| 31% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 31% | SPILLTHETEA | 11 | "Give me some gossip!" ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers |
| 30% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 30% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 30% | MINDMYPSANDQS | 13 | What I, the constructor, had to do while making this puzzle |
| 30% | NODOFF | 6 | At midnight when I'm still writing clues for the puzzle that absolutely has to be in Florida by 8:00 am, I have a tendency to do this |
| 30% | WHACAMOLE | 9 | Popular arcade game featuring pop-up rodents ... as represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 30% | VIBESHIFTS | 10 | Big changes in the Zeitgeist, as suggested by the circled letters in this puzzle? |