| 100% | SATES | 5 | Satisfies, spelled with letters that can be found in order in satisfies |
| 56% | SCHMEAR | 7 | Bagel spread that can be spelled with the letters in cream cheese |
| 55% | AMORE | 5 | Word that can aptly be spelled with the letters in romance |
| 53% | STU | 3 | Name that can be found in the letters preceding V |
| 51% | EASY | 4 | Cakewalk word that goes with and can be found in "peasy" |
| 51% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 49% | AXE | 3 | Weapon that can be spelled with two or three letters |
| 49% | VEE | 3 | Letter that can be "spelled" with two fingers |
| 49% | UNFINISHED | 10 | With 62-Across, matters left to settle, and what can be found in each set of circled letters? |
| 48% | EWOK | 4 | Sci-fi creature whose name can be spelled with letters in Wookiee |
| 48% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 48% | SHE | 3 | Pronoun that can be spelled with a slash between the first and second letters |
| 47% | RAT | 3 | Rodent that can be found in "Ratatouille" |
| 47% | LOUSE | 5 | Parasite that can be found in hair |
| 46% | TOASTER | 7 | Appliance that can be found in a kitchen |
| 46% | FREEZER | 7 | Appliance that can be found in a kitchen |
| 46% | WEB | 3 | Silky handiwork that can be found in "WWW" |
| 46% | OIL | 3 | Fuel that could be found in a reservoir |
| 46% | ECRU | 4 | Color whose letters are found in order in spectrum |
| 46% | LYMPHNODE | 9 | Cancer filtering organ that can be found in armpit |
| 46% | MII | 3 | Nintendo character that can be found in a "Plaza" |
| 46% | BLIN | 4 | Eastern European pancake that can be found in "blink" |
| 46% | OTTER | 5 | Playful aquatic mammal that can be found in "potter" |
| 46% | BUTTS | 5 | Cigarette remnants that could be found in an ashtray |
| 45% | OED | 3 | Letters that I had to look up in what turned out to be itself, in order to find out what they meant |
| 44% | ALITTLEBIRDIE | 13 | Secret's source ... that can be found four times in this puzzle |
| 44% | TWIT | 4 | British slang for a foolish person that can be found in "Twitter" |
| 44% | CHIPS | 5 | Salty potato snacks that can be found in a bag of Lays |
| 44% | BEN | 3 | With 22-Across, former senator whose name can be spelled using only the letters in NEBRASKA (his home state) |
| 44% | TACOS | 5 | Chipotle offerings that can be ordered in threes |