| 100% | GPAS | 4 | Nos. representing years' worth of letters |
| 44% | ANI | 3 | ___ DiFranco of "Red Letter Year" |
| 43% | MONO | 4 | With 69-Across, what each set of letters in parentheses represents |
| 42% | ALGEBRA | 7 | Branch of math; uses letters representing numbers |
| 42% | DIAMOND | 7 | This stone represents 60 years of marriage |
| 42% | DADBLASTED | 10 | No-good, spelled using only the letters of 71-Down |
| 41% | TOWNSQUARES | 11 | What the six groups of circled letters represent |
| 41% | MAY | 3 | Month of the year with only three letters |
| 41% | TRI | 3 | What the first letter of 11-Across represents |
| 41% | EWE | 3 | Homophone of "you" that shares no letters with it |
| 40% | QUARTER | 7 | US coin worth 25 cents or one-fourth of year |
| 40% | SILENTNIGHT | 11 | Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? |
| 40% | JOINT | 5 | What each set of shaded letters in this puzzle represents |
| 40% | MUSTACHE | 8 | What each set of circled letters in this grid represents |
| 40% | TAXBRACKET | 10 | Earnings division, and what each trio of circled letters represents |
| 40% | EWE | 3 | Homophone of 1-Across that shares no letters with it |
| 40% | YOU | 3 | Homophone of 9-Across that shares no letters with it |
| 39% | PTS | 3 | The letter Q is worth 10 of them in Scrabble: Abbr. |
| 39% | YOGAPOSES | 9 | What the five formations of circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 39% | TAU | 3 | 19th letter of the Greek alphabet, which is represented by "T" |
| 38% | STEPMOM | 7 | Wicked relative of Cinderella ... or what each set of circled letters represents? |
| 38% | DERMATOGLYPHICS | 15 | Study of fingerprints [no repeated letters] |
| 37% | RHOS | 4 | Greek letters that may represent air density, resistivity or some kind of meson |
| 37% | YEAR | 4 | Span represented by the first three letters of 12 answers in this puzzle |
| 37% | PIERRE | 6 | Only state capital that shares no letters with the name of its state |
| 37% | ISOGRAM | 7 | Phrase with no repeated letters (like each of this puzzle’s seven longest answers) |
| 36% | MEAT | 4 | *Vegetarian's no-no ... or a word made by changing one letter of 34a |
| 36% | IRENE | 5 | Worth of acting |
| 36% | IRENE | 5 | Worth of theater |
| 36% | POSTAL | 6 | Of letters etc. |