| 100% | DOUBLEAGENT | 11 | Change a letter in 63-Across to spell... |
| 84% | COMMANDTOADOGSLEDTEAM | 21 | Change a letter in 1-Across to spell... |
| 84% | GORE | 4 | Change a letter in 110-Across to spell... |
| 84% | WHATOLIVERTWISTWANTED | 21 | Change a letter in 85-Across to spell... |
| 84% | STUBBORNBEAST | 13 | Change a letter in 46-Across to spell... |
| 84% | CLIOORERATO | 11 | Change a letter in 23-Across to spell... |
| 59% | CORD | 4 | Telephone wire, or change a letter in 14a to get the answer |
| 59% | MUM | 3 | Close-mouthed, or change a letter in 27d to get the answer |
| 59% | MAD | 3 | Extremely upset, or change a letter in 6d to get the answer |
| 59% | MUD | 3 | Kind of pie, or change a letter in 18d to get the answer |
| 59% | WARM | 4 | Like some welcomes, or change a letter in 39a to get the answer |
| 49% | IHOP | 4 | Restaurant that changed its last letter to a B for a brief period in June |
| 49% | WORD | 4 | Part of a sentence, or change a letter in 22a to get the answer |
| 48% | BOOT | 4 | Change a letter to get the body part it goes on |
| 46% | PEAR | 4 | With 63 Across, ''partridge in a'' place |
| 45% | EDIT | 4 | To make changes in a document |
| 44% | THE | 3 | With 63- and 64-Across, privileged info, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 44% | CBS | 3 | Network that had a logo of a spotlight illuminating letters, but changed in '51 to one inspired by a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign |
| 44% | PERFECT | 7 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Practice makes flawless" |
| 44% | WASTE | 5 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Haste makes trash" |
| 44% | TERRAFORM | 9 | Change a planet to resemble earth, as in many sci-fi novels |
| 44% | REED | 4 | Used in 13 Across to produce a tone |
| 44% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | IMPULSE | 7 | With 63-Across, Freudian concept of resisting temptation ... or a hint to four squares in this puzzle |
| 43% | LOOK | 4 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Peep before you leap" |
| 43% | THINK | 5 | Change a word in this phrase to correct it! "Ponder before you speak" |
| 43% | LADIES | 6 | With 63-Across, what some performers saw in Las Vegas? ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 43% | WHEELOF | 7 | With 37-Across, card in a tarot deck, and a hint to each circled letter set |
| 43% | DOWNSHIFT | 9 | To change to a lower gear in a manual car |
| 42% | TOY | 3 | Item in a child's letter to Santa |