| 100% | EIGHT | 5 | Total number of letters of the alphabet used in this puzzle |
| 62% | FOUR | 4 | Minimum number of times each letter of the alphabet appears in this puzzle's solution |
| 60% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 54% | PLATO | 5 | Speaker of the quote found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 52% | TIRE | 4 | Bad thing to blow ... or what each of the circled letters in this puzzle represents |
| 50% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | ATOZ | 4 | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| 49% | HONOLULUHAWAII | 14 | City whose language uses only the 12 letters found in this puzzle |
| 49% | ZIP | 3 | Each of the numbers in this puzzle's theme |
| 48% | TEN | 3 | Number of one-voweled, seven-letter words in this puzzle |
| 48% | OPLACETOGO | 10 | What some of the letters in this puzzle seemingly have |
| 48% | ELEVEN | 6 | How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle - or how many of these answers there are |
| 48% | TENCIENTS | 9 | Total value of the symbols created by the special crossings in this puzzle |
| 47% | ERR | 3 | Use the answer to any of this puzzle's starred clues in ordinary conversation? |
| 47% | THEPIEDPIPEROFHAMELIN | 21 | Leader of the pack hidden in this puzzle? |
| 46% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in London |
| 46% | ZED | 3 | Last letter of the alphabet, in England |
| 46% | GABLE | 5 | Another co-star of the film hidden in this puzzle |
| 46% | REALIST | 7 | Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle |
| 46% | GIFT | 4 | Traditional 61-Across surprise, aptly boxed, and spelled with the only four letters of the alphabet that don't appear elsewhere in this grid |
| 46% | TREE | 4 | Thing hidden in each of the movie names in this puzzle |
| 45% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 45% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 45% | TOOLBOX | 7 | Locale of all the circled items in this puzzle |
| 44% | DOLLAR | 6 | Source of all the tender words in this puzzle? |
| 44% | ELVIS | 5 | The King (subject of four "sightings" elsewhere in this puzzle) |
| 44% | FOUR | 4 | Number of letters in this clue's answer |
| 44% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 43% | YOGIBERRA | 9 | Source of all the quotes in this puzzle |
| 43% | ESS | 3 | Curvy letter in the latter half of the alphabet |