| 100% | SEMI | 4 | Start to "circle" to mean half a circle |
| 85% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix with "circle" to mean half a circle |
| 65% | HELI | 4 | Start to "copter" to mean a chopper |
| 64% | METRO | 5 | Start to "polis" to mean a big city |
| 60% | HEMI | 4 | Prefix with "sphere" to mean half of a sphere |
| 59% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix that means half, like in a circle |
| 59% | ICE | 3 | To break it means to start a conversation |
| 57% | ICE | 3 | To "break" it means to start a conversation |
| 57% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix with "circle" to mean half |
| 54% | NEW | 3 | To turn over a ___ leaf, fall-related idiom that means to start something fresh |
| 54% | EASYON | 6 | Start of a billboard catchphrase meaning "close to the highway" |
| 52% | SEMI | 4 | Half a circle |
| 52% | AHOUSEDIVIDED | 13 | Start of a Lincoln line, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 50% | DIAMETER | 8 | Measurement from edge to edge across a circle |
| 50% | HOB | 3 | Start to "nob" to mean "socialize" |
| 50% | BEDHEAD | 7 | Mussed hair upon waking, and a hint to the circled starts of answers |
| 49% | META | 4 | Start to "morphosis" to mean "change form" |
| 49% | DEE | 3 | Shape of half a circle |
| 49% | SEMI | 4 | Prefix for half a circle |
| 48% | NAMETHEONE | 10 | Start of a brainteaser whose answer appears in order, from top to bottom, in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 48% | EPI | 3 | Start to "Pen" to give a lifesaving injection |
| 48% | SEMI | 4 | Half of a circle |
| 48% | SEMI | 4 | Half (like a circle) |
| 48% | IHOPE | 5 | Start to a wish |
| 47% | GOD | 3 | Start to "speed" to give a good luck wish |
| 47% | UNLACE | 6 | Start to take off, in a way |
| 47% | COMEALIVE | 9 | Start to gather energy, like a crowd |
| 47% | UNZIP | 5 | Start to take off, in a sense |
| 47% | GETSWEIRD | 9 | Starts to feel sketchy, as a situation |
| 47% | TAKEME | 6 | Start to a baseball song |