| 100% | RESIGNED | 8 | To have quit a job, by letter |
| 49% | THETAIL | 7 | Challenging thing to have a tiger by |
| 48% | RODEO | 5 | Workplace for a clown who in order to get the job done, sometimes has to take the bull by the horns |
| 46% | STAYON | 6 | Decide not to quit a job |
| 46% | EMPLOY | 6 | To give someone a job, to have them work for you |
| 46% | ARE | 3 | Word reduced to a letter by texters |
| 45% | ABCS | 4 | Children have a song to remember these letters |
| 44% | TOOTHDECAY | 10 | Condition contributed to by a lack of [circled letters] |
| 44% | DEADLINE | 8 | Time that a project has to be finished by |
| 44% | DEMIT | 5 | Quit a job |
| 44% | RESIGNS | 7 | Quits a job |
| 44% | BREAKEVEN | 9 | Have no profit or loss, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 43% | GIRLPOWER | 9 | Slogan thought to have originated in a 1991 zine by the punk band Bikini Kill |
| 43% | RESIGNING | 9 | Quitting a job, aka __ |
| 43% | CHANGESTHEWORLD | 15 | Has a huge impact ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | RESIGNED | 8 | Quit a job (past tense) |
| 43% | ANKLE | 5 | Quit a job, Variety style |
| 42% | INNER | 5 | Private ... or a hint to the words spelled by the circled letters |
| 42% | TMI | 3 | "You've said more than you had to" letters in a text |
| 42% | GRADE | 5 | Letter given to a student by a teacher |
| 42% | ELUC | 4 | Letters which one will have to unjumble to mean a spy's lead or "clue" |
| 42% | SHARD | 5 | Item that can be described by changing its last letter to a P |
| 42% | BREAKABLES | 10 | Fragile articles ... or a hint to the things named by the circled letters |
| 42% | PARTYDOWN | 9 | Really revel ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters |
| 41% | ACRO | 4 | High-rise window cleaner is not a job to apply for if you have this type of phobia |
| 41% | RESIGNS | 7 | Quits a job or position of power |
| 41% | BROPE | 5 | Letters which one will have to unjumble to mean a spy's thorough investigation or "probe" |
| 41% | RLY | 3 | Letters preceded by "O" used in internet forums underneath a snowy owl image to express disbelief |
| 41% | STLOUISMISSOURI | 15 | City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right |
| 41% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Redistributionist's catchphrase ... or a hint to the words formed by the circled letters |