| 100% | STEIN | 5 | Letters after "Franken-" for the name of a monster |
| 60% | KAON | 4 | Particle named for a letter of the alphabet |
| 60% | TEE | 3 | Shirt named for a letter of the alphabet |
| 59% | TBONE | 5 | Kind of steak named after a letter of the alphabet |
| 59% | IOR | 3 | Suffix with "super" for the name of a Great Lake |
| 58% | IBEAM | 5 | Construction-site sight, named after a letter of the alphabet: Hyph. |
| 56% | VIA | 3 | ___ Getty (image attribution that was mistaken on Twitter for the name of a person) |
| 56% | ATTN | 4 | Abbreviation before the name of a business letter's recipient |
| 56% | DELTA | 5 | Airline that's also the name of a Greek letter |
| 54% | KIWI | 4 | Name of a fruit and the informal term for a New Zealander |
| 54% | GULLIBLE | 8 | How you might feel after reading the third letter of every clue in this puzzle for a secret message |
| 52% | CALYX | 5 | Collective name for the sepals of a flower |
| 52% | POI | 3 | Name of a Maori performing art as well as the equipment used for this art |
| 52% | HAFT | 4 | The name for the handle of a knife or spear, hilt |
| 52% | DELTA | 5 | Greek letter that's also the name of a US airline |
| 51% | PS3 | 3 | Shortened name of a console for 57 Across (and a description of its circled letters) |
| 51% | BOSSA | 5 | Start of the name of a dance that's Portuguese for "new trend" |
| 51% | IOTA | 4 | Vowel-rich name of the English word for a Greek vowel |
| 50% | USS | 3 | Letters at the start of a destroyer's name |
| 50% | KOI | 3 | A kind of fish, after which the pond is named |
| 50% | ASCORBIC | 8 | A type of acid, the proper name for vitamin C |
| 50% | SOLDIER | 7 | General name for a member of the Army |
| 50% | SUNDAE | 6 | Dish named for a day of the week |
| 50% | BAJA | 4 | The name of a Californian peninsula |
| 50% | INFANT | 6 | The name of a baby ape |
| 49% | ADRAMACRITICIS | 14 | Part 1 of a quip by the writer named in the circled letters |
| 49% | STARR | 5 | Ringo ___, drummer for The Beatles whose name is reminiscent of a Christmas night |
| 49% | EAGLES | 6 | The ___, band named after birds of prey, known for "Hotel California" |
| 49% | GPT | 3 | Letters after “Chat” in the name of an OpenAI product |
| 49% | NONET | 5 | Name for one of the 3x3 regions in a Sudoku grid |