| 100% | BIGBEND | 7 | National park along the Rio Grande, represented by this puzzle's circled words |
| 43% | XRAYVISION | 10 | Superpower represented by this puzzle's circled squares |
| 43% | OUTERWEAR | 9 | Garment fittingly represented by this puzzle's circles |
| 42% | SEPTEMBER | 9 | 1978 hit by the band represented in this puzzle's circles |
| 42% | INTERNALORGANS | 14 | Essential structures exemplified by this puzzle's circled words |
| 41% | CELESTIALBODIES | 15 | Astronomical objects represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 40% | CHEMICALSYMBOLS | 15 | This puzzle's circled letters, for the words that precede them |
| 39% | PARTY | 5 | Event suggested by this puzzle's circled squares, read clockwise from the top |
| 39% | WHACAMOLE | 9 | Popular arcade game featuring pop-up rodents ... as represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | VINCENT | 7 | With 50-Across, Dutch painter represented by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 38% | NEUROPLASTICITY | 15 | Brain's ability to form new connections ... as represented by the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 38% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 37% | ITSRAININGCATSANDDOGS | 21 | Weather comment represented visually by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 37% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 37% | BASEBALLDIAMOND | 15 | Setting for a 20-Across ... as represented by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 36% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 36% | FIDDLER | 7 | Musical featuring the song depicted by this puzzle's circled letters, familiarly |
| 36% | DOUBLEO | 7 | Feature of this puzzle's circled squares that, when connected by a single line, visually represents 111-Across |
| 35% | DONOTBEND | 9 | Mail instruction sometimes ignored, as suggested by the words in this puzzle's circles |
| 35% | ALTERATIONS | 11 | Adjustments provided by businesses specializing in this puzzle's circled word |
| 35% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 35% | LANES | 5 | Divisions represented by the highlighted answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | OCTOPUS | 7 | Creature suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | TREE | 4 | Thing depicted by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | SHOE | 4 | Item depicted by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | WHEREISTHETHEME | 15 | Question answered by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | LATESHIFT | 9 | Employee hours suggested by this puzzle's circles |
| 34% | ACADIA | 6 | National park along the Atlantic |
| 34% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 63-Across, tricky football play ... as represented by this puzzle's shaded squares? |