| 100% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 67% | PULLEDRANK | 10 | Asserted one's authority, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 65% | BACKTALK | 8 | Sass, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 65% | CHANGINGCLOTHES | 15 | Switching outfits, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 64% | CLIMBINGSHOES | 13 | Footwear for boulderers, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 58% | BACKCOUNTRY | 11 | Rural area, and what can be found in this puzzle's circles |
| 54% | GEARSHIFTS | 10 | Automatic functions in most cars, and what can be found in this puzzle's circles |
| 52% | MADSCRAMBLE | 11 | Frantic, last-minute rush, and what can be found in each set of circled letters in this puzzle? |
| 51% | FALLINGRAIN | 11 | Downpour, or when parsed another way, what can be found in this puzzle's sets of circles |
| 50% | CROSSREFERENCES | 15 | "See also" notations ... or what can be found in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| 50% | OBSTRUCTIONOFJUSTICE | 20 | Illegal interference ... or what can be found in this puzzle's 1st, 3rd, 7th, 15th, 19th and 21st rows? |
| 50% | KENTUCKYDERBY | 13 | First leg of the Triple Crown, whose levels of success can be found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 49% | HOUSEHOLDNAME | 13 | Instantly recognizable brand, and what can literally be found in this puzzle's circles? |
| 49% | STRETCHGOAL | 11 | Crowdfunding target, and what can be found in three of this puzzle's answers |
| 49% | DOUBLEDOUBLE | 12 | Basketball stat, and what can be found in six of this puzzle's long answers |
| 49% | SPLITTICKET | 11 | Voter's crossover ballot, and what can literally be found in the circled letters |
| 46% | KNOCKONWOOD | 11 | "Let's hope so!," or what is found in this puzzle's circled letters |
| 46% | UNFINISHED | 10 | With 62-Across, matters left to settle, and what can be found in each set of circled letters? |
| 45% | WORKAROUNDS | 11 | Ways to sidestep obstacles, and what are found in this puzzle's circles |
| 45% | ADDAMS | 6 | Surname of a family whose members can be found in nine rows in this puzzle ... and whose names contain circled letters that, reading down, spell a word describing them |
| 45% | HIDDENWIRES | 11 | Devices worn by informants … and what can be found inside three pairs of answers in this puzzle |
| 44% | TWISTEDHUMOR | 12 | Element of irony, and what can be found in each set of circled letters? |
| 44% | BUBBLESUP | 9 | Rises to the top, or what can be found in this puzzle? |
| 44% | FORTYNINERS | 11 | Old rush participants ... or a three-part hint to what can be found in this puzzle's grid or clues |
| 44% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 44% | PARTINGSHOT | 11 | End of a testy exchange, and what can be found four times in this puzzle, thanks to four black squares |
| 43% | YOUREMISSINGOUT | 15 | "That's a lost opportunity," and what can be said to the writer of four clues in this puzzle |
| 43% | AFRICA | 6 | Where this puzzle's circled letters can be found |
| 42% | HIDDENGEM | 9 | Diamond in the rough, and what can be found in each set of circles |
| 42% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |