| 100% | VOLT | 4 | Chevrolet hybrid whose letters appear left-to-right within the word "Chevrolet" |
| 53% | STUN | 4 | Word meaning "astound" whose letters appear within the word "astound" |
| 50% | SON | 3 | Word whose letters are aptly found from left to right in "scion" |
| 45% | WARMINGUP | 9 | Getting ready to exercise ... or what the words composed of circled letters are doing when read from left to right? |
| 44% | BEER | 4 | Beverage whose letters appear in order in the word "beverage" |
| 44% | KARAOKESCREEN | 13 | One place to follow the object named in the circled letters (reading left to right) |
| 43% | STLOUISMISSOURI | 15 | City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right |
| 42% | COTY | 4 | Cosmetics company whose letters appear in left-to-right order in "cosmetics company" |
| 39% | CHESHIRECAT | 11 | Character whose incorporeal grin prompted the quote in the shaded spaces (reading upper and then lower arcs, left to right) |
| 37% | ASIDE | 5 | To the left or right |
| 35% | LUNAR | 5 | Left woman to the right of the moon |
| 35% | SIDE | 4 | To the left or right of an object |
| 35% | GREAT | 5 | Word whose letters are used to spell this puzzle's five longest answers |
| 35% | CEE | 3 | Letter whose homophone means to look with the eyes |
| 35% | INDENT | 6 | Set to the right or the left |
| 35% | GOP | 3 | Letters leaning to the right? |
| 34% | TUBMAN | 6 | Harriet whose image is scheduled to appear on the twenty-dollar bill |
| 34% | ANE | 3 | Letter you need to complete the word "WHAL_": 2 wds. |
| 34% | GEE | 3 | How to spell the word representing letter G |
| 34% | ITS | 3 | Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing |
| 34% | TACKLESHOP | 10 | Place catering to the left and right of center? |
| 34% | PLATE | 5 | What utensils go to the left and right of |
| 34% | ALEGUP | 6 | Competitive edge, as illustrated in the answers to starred clues from left to right |
| 33% | ALT | 3 | Key to the left or right of the space bar on a Windows keyboard |
| 33% | END | 3 | "The ___," words that prompt one to leave the theater |
| 33% | FIREPLUG | 8 | What may have a dog leg to the left or right? |
| 33% | GOWIDE | 6 | Miss to the left or right, as a field goal attempt |
| 33% | OARLOP | 6 | Rabbit whose ears stick out at right angles to the head |
| 33% | IDIOM | 5 | Figure of speech ... and a synonym of the puzzle's alternate title, spelled left to right in the circled squares |
| 33% | BOWLSOVER | 9 | Leaves flabbergasted, and a hint to the circled letters |