| 100% | BREAKDANCE | 10 | Debut sport at the Paris Olympics, or what 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across do to their circled letters |
| 34% | OUTOFORDERSIGNS | 15 | Some bathroom postings ... or what the clues to 16-, 21-, 46- and 59-Across are? |
| 34% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | Hit 1980s-'90s sitcom ... or what the circled letters in 16-, 26- and 43-Across represent? |
| 34% | BREAK | 5 | Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 34% | SWIPERIGHT | 10 | Show interest on a dating app … or what 16-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across must do to be successful? |
| 33% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 32% | INNERTUBE | 9 | Inflatable river float, or what the answers to 16-, 23-, 35-, and 46-Across have |
| 31% | SINGINGTHEBLUES | 15 | What the artists of 16-, 27- and 49-Across are doing (in reference to the last words of their hits)? |
| 30% | FOUNDFAMILY | 11 | Closely knit community that provides social support, or what 16-, 23-, 36-, and 46-Across contain? |
| 30% | DRESSINGS | 9 | What the last words in 16-, 22-, 36- and 48-Across are |
| 29% | RAISEARUCKUS | 12 | Cause commotion ... or what the circled letters do? |
| 29% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive elimination ... or what one may do to the ends of 17-, 31-, 38- and 50-Across? |
| 29% | DROPCAP | 7 | Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer |
| 29% | USEDFURNITURE | 13 | Some garage sale goods ... or what the answers at 15-, 19-, 33-, 41- and 62-Across have done? |
| 29% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive an audition, and what one may do to the start of 18-, 23-, 36-, or 54-Across? |
| 28% | HIGHDEFINITION | 14 | Like most televisions, and what can be found at the start of 20-, 36-, or 46-Across |
| 28% | REPEATAFTERME | 13 | "Do as I do," and a hint to what the circled letters do |
| 28% | FEDEX | 5 | Letter carrier that literally distributed letters to 16-, 22-, 36-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 28% | BREAKFAST | 9 | Important meal, or what the circled letters do, if parsed another way |
| 28% | BEEKEEPER | 9 | Apiculturist ... and, playfully, what 16-, 22-, 36- or 49-Across is |
| 27% | SKMIPLSSTNONTES | 15 | *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does |
| 27% | GETARAISE | 9 | Start to make more money, and what the circled letters do? |
| 27% | FISHHOOK | 8 | Device at the end of the line, and what each set of circled letters represents |
| 27% | RINSECYCLE | 10 | Part of washing ... or what's exhibited by the circled letters from top to bottom |
| 27% | CONVERTTOMETRIC | 15 | What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across |
| 27% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 27% | BOREFRUIT | 9 | Turned out successfully ... or what the parents of 16-, 19-, 52- and 57-Across did? |
| 27% | HIGHHORSE | 9 | Arrogant person's place ... or what the answers to 3-, 7-, and 16-Down share? |
| 27% | RHO | 3 | Greek letter that sounds like the end of 16-, 22-, 36-, 47- or 58-Across |
| 27% | BEARFRUIT | 9 | Be productive ... or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do? |