| 100% | SHELLCOMPANIES | 14 | Corporations with little business activity, and what are formed by the circled letters |
| 46% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 40% | WOODSTOCK | 9 | Aquarian event at Yasgur's farm, and a hint to what's formed by the circled letters |
| 39% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 39% | HOLDINGPATTERNS | 15 | Flight paths above busy airports, and what the sets of circled letters literally are? |
| 39% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| 38% | FOOTBRIDGE | 10 | Stream crossing for pedestrians ... and what is literally provided by the interior letters in the answers to starred clues |
| 38% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 38% | BADPENNY | 8 | With "a," someone undesirable ... and what's found in the circled letters? |
| 38% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 38% | LIGHTNINGBOLT | 13 | What's formed by connecting this puzzle's circled letters from A to F and then back to A |
| 37% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 52-Down, betrayal, and what's formed by each pair of the trigrams |
| 37% | SQUARE | 6 | With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form |
| 37% | EXERCISEROUTINE | 15 | Workout suggested by the circled letters and their orientation |
| 37% | SEQUENCE | 8 | When preceded by [the circled letters], progression starting with 0 and 1 |
| 36% | OFFONALARK | 10 | What's depicted by the circled letters in 41-/49-Across |
| 36% | ORION | 5 | Constellation whose belt is formed by the stars Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka |
| 36% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 36% | THROWNFORALOOP | 14 | *Bamboozled ... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be? |
| 36% | SAGAWARDS | 9 | Hollywood honors since 1995, and what the circled letters are? |
| 35% | SPIRAL | 6 | When preceded by [the circled letters], natural shape said to be seen in 61-Across and 27-Down |
| 34% | EXTRA | 5 | With 55-Down, kicker's contribution, and what's found in the circled letters |
| 34% | INSIDEJOB | 9 | Betrayal of trust, hinted at by the circled letters, which form an apt John le Carré title |
| 34% | THECLOCK | 8 | With the circled letters, 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets hit? |
| 34% | MONKEY | 6 | With the circled letters and 46-Across, playground keep-away game |
| 34% | FOUNDMONEY | 10 | Unexpected wallet fattener ... and what the circled words are |
| 34% | INNERDEMONS | 11 | Personal struggles, and what the answers with circles have |
| 34% | ALCHEMY | 7 | Activity associated with the word ladder formed by 1-, 10-, 70- and 72-Across |
| 34% | POSTITNOTES | 11 | Sticky yellow squares ... or a description of the circled letters and what they follow? |
| 34% | TOPS | 4 | With the giant letter formed by the black squares immediately above this answer, what the answers to the starred clues all literally have |