| 100% | ABRIDGED | 8 | Shortened, and what the letters removed from eight novels in this puzzle spell out |
| 47% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 45% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 44% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 43% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 43% | NOTES | 5 | Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 43% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 42% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 41% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 41% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 40% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 38% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 38% | LATENESS | 8 | Result of pushing things back, and what's spelled out by eight letters that have been literally pushed to the back |
| 37% | NAMEOFTHEGAME | 13 | Something's essential aspect ... or what's spelled out by letters in this puzzle's eight "cups" |
| 36% | FORK | 4 | What the letters added to the four "stirred" words in this puzzle spell |
| 36% | SALESPROMOTIONS | 15 | Marketing strategies, and what the mascots in this puzzle have all been given? |
| 36% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 36% | 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 |
| 35% | FANTASYLEAGUE | 13 | Contrived competition ... and what the 109-Across comprise in this puzzle? |
| 35% | PICKEDUPTHEPACE | 15 | Hurried, and what this puzzle's word ladder literally did in eight steps? |
| 34% | NEWYEAR | 7 | What the last four letters of eight key answers in this puzzle might be considered, cryptically |
| 34% | INONESENSE | 10 | Description of this puzzle's circled letters, and a clue to what they spell |
| 34% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 34% | JACKINTHEBOXES | 14 | Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle |
| 34% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 34% | TINATURNER | 10 | "The Best" singer, and what this puzzle is, in the circles |
| 34% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 34% | HAND | 4 | Poker holding ... like the one spelled out in the letters that cut this puzzle's circled cards |
| 33% | KNIGHTHOOD | 10 | What the eight male musicians in this puzzle all achieved |
| 33% | MAKINGACOMEBACK | 15 | What the eight featured celebrities in this puzzle are doing? |