| 100% | ELLIPSE | 7 | Circle, to geometricians |
| 61% | ORALLY | 6 | Circle to assemble by word of mouth |
| 58% | HOTPOTATO | 9 | Object thrown around a circle to music |
| 57% | NORTH | 5 | From the Antarctic Circle to the Arctic Circle |
| 56% | WREATH | 6 | Circle of evergreen to decorate doors |
| 56% | INGROUPS | 8 | Circles that are hard to break? |
| 55% | RADIUS | 6 | Measurement from the edge of circle to its middle |
| 54% | MEET | 4 | Reason to run in circles? |
| 53% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix with "circle" to mean half a circle |
| 53% | DRAIN | 5 | Circling the ___ (about to go down the tubes) |
| 53% | EBON | 4 | Very dark, to the poetry circle |
| 53% | NECKLACES | 9 | Chains designed to circle the nape |
| 53% | BEFRIEND | 8 | Add to one's social circle |
| 53% | REC | 3 | Abbr. next to a red circle |
| 53% | BATTERUP | 8 | Call to the on-deck circle |
| 52% | SCALE | 5 | Device related to the circled letters |
| 52% | RADII | 5 | Lines that connect the center of a circle to its edge |
| 51% | WAISTBAND | 9 | Circle of fabric holds a garment to your middle |
| 51% | RADIUS | 6 | Line from middle to circumference of circle |
| 51% | PARADE | 6 | __ ring, where racehorses circle prior to racing |
| 51% | LETSPUTAPININIT | 15 | "We should circle back to this later" |
| 51% | LYING | 5 | What causes the circled letters to grow? |
| 51% | ALOUD | 5 | How to read the circled answers (please!) |
| 51% | CONCEALER | 9 | Makeup product used to hide dark circles |
| 50% | RATIO | 5 | Pi is one, for the circumference of a circle to its diameter |
| 50% | DIAMETER | 8 | Measurement from edge to edge across a circle |
| 50% | GLENN | 5 | First U.S. astronaut to circle the earth |
| 50% | BACK | 4 | ___-to-school (hint to this puzzle's circled letters) |
| 49% | MIXEDGREENS | 11 | Mesclun, and a hint to the circled squares |
| 49% | ABLE | 4 | Precursor to Baker and Charlie, in some circles |