| 100% | CUECARDS | 8 | Prompting words, such as in a Bob Dylan video |
| 42% | SPAWN | 5 | Appear, as in a video game |
| 41% | NOUN | 4 | Naming word such as a common — or proper — |
| 39% | LINKINGVERB | 11 | Word such as "be" ... or a punny description of the seven-letter word that can create new action words when its letters are inserted in the breaks of the circled action words |
| 38% | CORRIDOR | 8 | Long passageway in a building such as a school |
| 38% | RTE | 3 | Road such as 66 in a famous song: Abbr. |
| 38% | SHROUDS | 7 | Burial garments, such as a famous one in Turin |
| 38% | PDAS | 4 | Things such as petting in a zoo, for short? |
| 38% | REBELLION | 9 | A revolt, such as in Ireland in 1916 |
| 37% | LEXEME | 6 | Abstract unit of meaning such as part of a word |
| 37% | TEAMS | 5 | Sides in a sport, such as the Dodgers and Giants |
| 37% | ETS | 3 | Aliens such as one in a Steven Spielberg movie: Abbr. |
| 37% | INSCRIBED | 9 | Wrote words in, as a ring |
| 37% | SARA | 4 | "Sweet love of my life," in a 1976 Bob Dylan song |
| 37% | TEAMS | 5 | Groups of players in a tourney, such as the LA Lakers |
| 36% | MEANT | 5 | Had in mind, as a few words |
| 35% | MAGNETO | 7 | Small electric generator such as that producing a spark in an internal combustion engine |
| 35% | BALANCE | 7 | __ wheel, a regulating wheel such as in a watch |
| 35% | FOLKSONG | 8 | A bob dylan tune |
| 35% | NOUN | 4 | Word such as "word" |
| 34% | CITED | 5 | Listed as a source, such as in Wikipedia |
| 34% | LAY | 3 | Famously wrong word in a Dylan title |
| 34% | NAKED | 5 | As in a Michelangelo sclupture |
| 34% | CASSETTE | 8 | It's the C in the video recorder known as a VCR |
| 34% | BURP | 4 | Pat on the back, as a baby (hidden in the word "burpees") |
| 34% | BLOWININTHEWIND | 15 | Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the object found by connecting the four circled letters in a diamond |
| 33% | PALINDROMES | 11 | Words such as “racecar” and “kayak” |
| 33% | EVER | 4 | Word after "as" in a letter closing |
| 33% | ACTIVEVERB | 10 | Word such as "sink" or "swim" |
| 33% | BOURSE | 6 | Stock exchange in a non-English-speaking country, such as that in France now known as Euronext Paris |