| 100% | INFANT | 6 | One delivered by the labor specialist spelled out in the circled letters that touch six dividing black squares in this puzzle |
| 43% | HAND | 4 | Poker holding ... like the one spelled out in the letters that cut this puzzle's circled cards |
| 41% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 38% | PHYSICS | 7 | Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle |
| 38% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 37% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 36% | ASHOWABOUTNOTHING | 17 | Description of the TV series spelled out in the circled squares (as well as this puzzle's theme) |
| 35% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 35% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 35% | SPIN | 4 | Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results) |
| 35% | TINAFEY | 7 | Writer of the bestseller spelled out in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 34% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | COLDOPEN | 8 | Certain TV intro ... or a description of each of 12 letters in the grid (the starts of six Across entries and then six Down entries) that spell out an alternate title for this puzzle |
| 34% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 33% | THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER | 21 | 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 33% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 33% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 32% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 32% | ARMORYSHOW | 10 | Event at which the work spelled out by the circled letters was first exhibited in America |
| 31% | 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) |
| 31% | DOUBLEPLAY | 10 | Baseball feat that may result in the situation you can spell using the deleted letters in this puzzle |
| 31% | YOUREMUTED | 10 | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| 31% | LUNARPHASE | 10 | What's represented by each circled space and one black square in this grid |
| 31% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 31% | LONGFELLOW | 10 | Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the circled squares |
| 30% | VIBESHIFTS | 10 | Big changes in the Zeitgeist, as suggested by the circled letters in this puzzle? |
| 30% | INVENTIONS | 10 | Legacy of 72-Down, seven of which appear among this puzzle's answers and one more suggested by the black squares in the middle of the grid |
| 30% | DOUBLEORNOTHING | 15 | Risky wager ... with a hint to the letters in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 30% | STATELINE | 9 | Geographic demarcation that separates the two possible answers in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 30% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |