| 100% | GETARAISE | 9 | Start to make more money, and what the circled letters do? |
| 55% | BREAKTHEICE | 11 | Begin a conversation, and what the answers to the starred clues do to their circled letters? |
| 54% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 52% | FRENCHTWIST | 11 | Elegant hairstyle, and what the circled letters give to 17-, 30-, and 47-Across? |
| 51% | REPEATAFTERME | 13 | "Do as I do," and a hint to what the circled letters do |
| 50% | CRACKAJOKE | 10 | Say something funny, and what the sets of circled letters do |
| 50% | GETCRACKING | 11 | Make a start, and what you might do to the ends of the starred answers |
| 47% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 47% | RAISEARUCKUS | 12 | Cause commotion ... or what the circled letters do? |
| 47% | USEFOWLLANGUAGE | 15 | What the starts of the answers to 17-, 24-, 48- and 60-Across do, punnily? |
| 46% | MIXEDRESULTS | 12 | Ambiguous outcome, and what the circled letters literally contain |
| 46% | SPINATALE | 9 | Embellish the truth, and what the sets of circled letters do? |
| 46% | OUTERBANKS | 10 | Kitty Hawk locale ... and what the circled letters graphically represent |
| 46% | SAGAWARDS | 9 | Hollywood honors since 1995, and what the circled letters are? |
| 46% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |
| 45% | NOTES | 5 | Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 45% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 45% | DROPINS | 7 | Unexpected guests, and what you'll have to do to make sense of the starred answers |
| 45% | SPREADEM | 8 | Cop's order before frisking, and what to do with the starts of the starred answers |
| 45% | BREAKFAST | 9 | Important meal, or what the circled letters do, if parsed another way |
| 44% | PUTALIDONIT | 11 | "Shut your trap!" ... and, graphically, what the circled letters do |
| 44% | MAKETHECUT | 10 | Survive an audition, and what one may do to the start of 18-, 23-, 36-, or 54-Across? |
| 44% | THROWNFORALOOP | 14 | *Bamboozled ... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be? |
| 44% | TAKE | 4 | With 6-Across, go in a board game ... or what the circled letters do |
| 44% | FOLLOWDIRECTIONS | 16 | What one must do using the circled letters to solve this puzzle |
| 43% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | BREAK | 5 | Intermission ... or what you can do to the starts of 17-, 24-, 38-, 46- and 59-Across |
| 42% | TAKETHE | 7 | With 62-Across, 1976 Steve Miller Band hit, and what you do to make the answers to the starred clues make sense |
| 42% | BIGDIPPER | 9 | Part of 17-Across ... and what the circles from A to G depict |
| 42% | TAKEASEAT | 9 | Relax, and what the starts of the starred answers can do |