| 100% | MIDDLEENGLISH | 13 | "The Canterbury Tales" language, and what's hiding in the circled letters |
| 64% | BACKCHANNEL | 11 | Covert means of communication ... or what's hiding in the circled letters? |
| 64% | BADPENNY | 8 | With "a," someone undesirable ... and what's found in the circled letters? |
| 63% | EXTRA | 5 | With 55-Down, kicker's contribution, and what's found in the circled letters |
| 54% | BACKSTREETS | 11 | Springsteen song, and what's contained in the circles |
| 54% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 53% | SPLITTICKET | 11 | Voter's crossover ballot, and what can literally be found in the circled letters |
| 53% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 53% | CRAZYEIGHTS | 11 | Simple card game, and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 53% | RECYCLEDMETAL | 13 | Scrapyard commodity ... and what's hidden in the nine other longest puzzle answers |
| 52% | OFFONALARK | 10 | What's depicted by the circled letters in 41-/49-Across |
| 52% | DOOMSCROLLING | 13 | Habit of incessantly reading bad news online, and what's happening in the circles |
| 52% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 52% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | Metaphor for one feeling slighted ... and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 51% | FLIPYOURLID | 11 | Blow a gasket, and what we've done in the circled letters |
| 51% | SOULCYCLE | 9 | Spin class company ... and what can describe the arrangement of letters in the circled squares? |
| 50% | NOTES | 5 | Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 50% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 50% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 50% | SECRETHANDSHAKE | 15 | Greeting between members of an exclusive club, and what's hiding in the answer to the starred clues? |
| 50% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | Hit 1980s-'90s sitcom ... or what the circled letters in 16-, 26- and 43-Across represent? |
| 50% | CANIGETANAMEN | 13 | "Anyone agree with me?" and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| 50% | SWAPMEET | 8 | Collectors' event, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 49% | SEEDCAPITAL | 11 | Startup funds ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues |
| 49% | DAILYJUMBLE | 11 | Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 49% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 49% | THROWNFORALOOP | 14 | *Bamboozled ... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be? |
| 49% | FRIEDRICE | 9 | Chinese menu standard, or what's literally found in the circled letters? |
| 49% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Aquarian event at Yasgur's farm, and a hint to what's formed by the circled letters |
| 49% | SHAPESHIFTERS | 13 | Amorphous sci-fi beings, and a hint to what's hidden in the four other longest answers |