| 100% | LEAVENED | 8 | Unlike bread on Passover, and like four of the five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 55% | MAKINGAFACE | 11 | Smirking, scowling, or smiling, and what the sets of circled letters in this puzzle are doing? |
| 54% | FURNITUREASSEMBLY | 17 | Ikea task, and a task that can be applied to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 52% | YOGAPOSES | 9 | What the five formations of circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 51% | WIGGLEROOM | 10 | Space to maneuver, or a hint to five sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 51% | ATOZ | 4 | The works ... or how each set of circled letters in this puzzle is arranged |
| 50% | SERPENTINE | 10 | Snaking, like the arrangement of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | WRAPSUP | 7 | Finishes, and a hint to the sets of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 49% | MADSCRAMBLE | 11 | Frantic, last-minute rush, and what can be found in each set of circled letters in this puzzle? |
| 47% | SHAKEWEIGHT | 11 | Oscillating exercise device of infomercial fame . . . or how to arrive at the four strings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 46% | JOYDIVISION | 11 | “Love Will Tear Us Apart” band . . . and a hint to each set of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 45% | PHYSICSFORMULAS | 15 | What the three sets of circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 43% | ABC | 3 | Kind of order for the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | EXTREMELYONLINE | 15 | Like someone who spends too much time on the internet, and like this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 43% | SPLITSCREEN | 11 | Feature of some news reports ... and a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | NOTES | 5 | Staff members, and what the circled letters in this puzzle represent |
| 43% | LONGWINDED | 10 | Verbose, and what the circled letters in this puzzle literally are? |
| 42% | CHANGEENDS | 10 | Tennis umpire's order after odd-numbered games ... and a hint to the two sets of circled letters in each of eight answers |
| 41% | CORNERSTONE | 11 | Place to find a date ... and any one of four in this puzzle (circled letters are hints) |
| 41% | UPLOADS | 7 | Puts on a server, say ... or a hint to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 41% | FATHERSANDSONS | 14 | Relationships of the four sets of athletes in this puzzle: 3 wds. |
| 40% | BEES | 4 | Busy buzzers ... and letters found at the start of every clue in this puzzle |
| 40% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 40% | BOOKENDS | 8 | Items found on library shelves, and what are literally found in each set of circled letters |
| 39% | EYE | 3 | Either of the circled letters in 4-Across, for this puzzle's face |
| 39% | QUINTUPLE | 9 | Like each letter of the alphabet in this puzzle, at minimum |
| 39% | RIGHTONRED | 10 | Legal turn at some intersections, and a turn in each set of circles in this puzzle |
| 39% | OLIVERTWIST | 11 | Dickens orphan, and what is found in each set of circles in this puzzle? |
| 39% | PUNCTUATIONMARK | 15 | Any of the groupings of circled letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | MUSTACHE | 8 | What each set of circled letters in this grid represents |