| 100% | GINGERBREAD | 11 | With 100-Across, image revealed by connecting the circled letters alphabetically |
| 41% | CUT | 3 | With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues |
| 38% | BUTTERFLY | 9 | Image formed by connecting this puzzle's circled letters from A to N and then back to A |
| 37% | MONKEY | 6 | With the circled letters and 46-Across, playground keep-away game |
| 36% | SLIPPERY | 8 | With 68-Across, precarious situations, as suggested by the circled letters |
| 35% | DEL | 3 | With 100 Across, Spanish ''of the sun'' |
| 35% | PARALLELOGRAM | 13 | What's revealed by connecting the special squares in this puzzle in order |
| 35% | TWOSTEPSFORWARD | 15 | With 57-Across, metaphor for nonlinear progress depicted by the circled letters |
| 35% | SQUARE | 6 | With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form |
| 34% | BRAD | 4 | With 59-Down, star of the work revealed by the first letters of the Across clues, which hint at this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | SEVENSEAS | 9 | Result of connecting the circled letters in a certain way, in a punny manner of speaking |
| 34% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 34% | FIN | 3 | Shape made by connecting the grid's circled squares in appropriate order |
| 33% | OFFONALARK | 10 | What's depicted by the circled letters in 41-/49-Across |
| 33% | THECLOCK | 8 | With the circled letters, 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets hit? |
| 33% | MAJORITY | 8 | With the circled letters, large but not often vocal voting bloc |
| 33% | BREAK | 5 | With the circled letters, period that traditionally ends on Labor Day |
| 33% | GOING | 5 | With the circled letters (literally!), two options when riding an elevator |
| 33% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 33% | STLOUISMISSOURI | 15 | City with a landmark spelled out by the circled letters, reading left to right |
| 33% | THROWNFORALOOP | 14 | *Bamboozled ... and what the circled letters, when connected in the proper sequence, can be? |
| 33% | CROSSPARTYLINES | 15 | Act in a bipartisan way, and what the circled letters do Across and Down |
| 33% | FALL | 4 | Season with color changes, as represented literally by the circled letters |
| 32% | LINCOLN | 7 | With 124-Across, dedicated in October 1913, project represented by the 13 pairs of circled letters |
| 32% | SINE | 4 | Function represented by the circled letters |
| 32% | BANANA | 6 | Fruit depicted by the circled letters |
| 32% | ANGLE | 5 | Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle |
| 32% | GIRL | 4 | With 10-Across and the circled letters, a best-selling novel, with "The" |
| 32% | PARTNERS | 8 | With the circled letters, investors not involved in the management of their businesses |
| 32% | SEQUENCE | 8 | When preceded by [the circled letters], progression starting with 0 and 1 |