| 100% | WORMHOLES | 9 | Theoretical shortcuts ... or what the four circles in this puzzle represent |
| 57% | LANDFORMS | 9 | Geographical features ... or what the circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 53% | STRANDSOFADOUBLEHELIX | 21 | What the highlighted squares in this puzzle represent |
| 53% | PHYSICSFORMULAS | 15 | What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 53% | YOGAPOSES | 9 | What the five formations of circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 50% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 50% | NOTES | 5 | Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 50% | POCKETS | 7 | What the U's in this puzzle's solution represent |
| 49% | WATERFALLS | 10 | What the circles in this puzzle hold |
| 49% | WIRETAP | 7 | What the four undercover orgs. in this puzzle might do |
| 49% | FROSTEDTIPS | 11 | Spiky, bleached hairstyle ... or what the puzzle circles represent |
| 48% | LONGJOHNS | 9 | Winter underwear … or what appear four times in this puzzle |
| 48% | COMMUNITYGARDEN | 15 | What the circled squares in this grid collectively represent |
| 48% | SUIT | 4 | What the 13 circled things in this puzzle constitute |
| 47% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 47% | TURNINGRED | 10 | Showing embarrassment ... or what the circles in three puzzle answers are literally doing |
| 47% | STATESWONBYBARACKOBAMA | 22 | With 90-Across, what the 28 circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 47% | MEATSUBSTITUTES | 15 | Vegetarian options … or what the shaded letters in this puzzle are, phonetically |
| 47% | ACUTABOVETHEREST | 16 | Superior ... or what this puzzle's circled letters represent? |
| 46% | FOREFATHER | 10 | Ancestor ... or what the first word of seven answers in this puzzle can have? |
| 46% | FULLHOUSE | 9 | Hit 1980s-'90s sitcom ... or what the circled letters in 16-, 26- and 43-Across represent? |
| 45% | PAVEDROAD | 9 | What the circled squares in this puzzle symbolize |
| 45% | RISEFROM | 8 | With 97-Across, emerge reborn ... or what the ends of five Across answers in this puzzle do? |
| 45% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | "See also" notations ... or what can be found in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| 44% | WAITING | 7 | On hold ... or what the seven rows of black squares in this puzzle's grid spell in Morse code |
| 44% | STATELINES | 10 | Borders represented four times in this puzzle — both in the grid and on a map |
| 44% | FULLCOUNT | 9 | 3-2 ... or what's represented by the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? |
| 44% | SEEYOUINCOURT | 13 | What the circled letters in this answer represent, homophonically |
| 44% | BEEINONESBONNET | 15 | What the circled letter in this answer represents, homophonically |
| 44% | SEAOFCORTEZ | 11 | What the circled letter in this answer represents, homophonically |