| 100% | MISSING | 7 | Like the letter O in this puzzle’s entire solution |
| 54% | AQUATIC | 7 | Like the five animals in this puzzle's theme |
| 52% | PEOPLEOFNOTE | 12 | Luminaries like the eight featured in this puzzle? (hint: look at their first few letters) |
| 49% | FOUR | 4 | Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution |
| 49% | ALLLOWERCASE | 12 | like the letters in this clue |
| 47% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 47% | POCKETS | 7 | What the U's in this puzzle's solution represent |
| 47% | PLATO | 5 | Speaker of the quote found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 47% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 46% | FALLINGDOWN | 11 | Like the contents of this puzzle's circled squares, in a nursery rhyme |
| 46% | ODD | 3 | Like the number of letters in this answer |
| 45% | TWO | 3 | Number of words in this puzzle beginning with the letter "C" |
| 45% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 45% | HAND | 4 | Poker holding ... like the one spelled out in the letters that cut this puzzle's circled cards |
| 45% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 44% | NOTUPTOPAR | 10 | Like the duffer in this puzzle? |
| 44% | JAMESBOND | 9 | Character associated with the beverage "shaken" in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | SINGAPORE | 9 | Country spelled with the only nine letters used in this puzzle's answers |
| 43% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 43% | TILDE | 5 | Mark used four times in this puzzle's solution |
| 43% | ABS | 3 | "Six-pack" found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | LOWERCASE | 9 | like all the letters in this clue |
| 42% | DIE | 3 | One of six objects hidden in this puzzle's 5×5 sections of white squares (and where you need to find the letters matching the value shown there) |
| 42% | ATOMICNUMBERS | 13 | What this puzzle's two-letter answers correspond with, given their locations in the grid |
| 42% | ACUTE | 5 | ___ accent, mark used symmetrically six times in this puzzle's solution |
| 42% | SPLITSECOND | 11 | Instant … hinted at four times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | BENDOREGON | 10 | Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | BACKTALK | 8 | Sass, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 41% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 41% | MISPELLED | 9 | Like the six longest answers in this puzzle |