| 100% | CAPTAIN | 7 | With 37-Across, title for the hidden individuals in 16-, 23-, 46-, and 58-Across, thanks to the circles in each answer? |
| 37% | WHEELOF | 7 | With 37-Across, card in a tarot deck, and a hint to each circled letter set |
| 36% | TWORHYMINGWORDS | 15 | With 27-, 39-, 46- and 62-Across, a brain teaser, whose answer appears in the circled squares |
| 36% | INNERTUBE | 9 | Inflatable river float, or what the answers to 16-, 23-, 35-, and 46-Across have |
| 35% | STRINGSATTACHED | 15 | What some favors and one part of the answers to 17-, 23-, 46-, and 57-Across come with? |
| 35% | INASCRABBLEGAME | 15 | With 30- and 49-Across, test question to be answered by filling in the correct circle |
| 35% | TONIGHTSHOWHOST | 15 | TV personality hidden in the answers to 16-, 22-, 32-, 41- and 47-Across |
| 35% | TOP | 3 | With 66-Across, place on a keyboard to find all the letters in 16-, 28-, 46- and 60-Across |
| 34% | STICKEMUP | 9 | "Hands in the air!" ... or a literal hint to 17-, 23-, 37- and 46-Across |
| 34% | OPENANDSHUTCASE | 15 | Easy-to-resolve situation ... or a hint to the progression found in 20-, 23-, 43-, 46- and 58-Across |
| 34% | ELF | 3 | Christmas figure seen in the answers to 18, 29, 46, and 60 Across |
| 33% | BALLRETURN | 10 | Bowling alley device, and a hint to the hidden word in each starred answer |
| 33% | LIDOSHUFFLE | 11 | Boz Scaggs hit with the lyric "One more for the road," and what can be found in 17-, 23-, 37-, and 48-Across? |
| 33% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 32% | LALA | 4 | With 58-Down, head-in-the-clouds place ... or a hint to each answer that has four circles |
| 32% | HIDE | 4 | With 73-Across, space-saving furniture, and what the answers to the starred clues each do |
| 32% | FASHION | 7 | With 37-Across, up on the latest trends, and a fitting description of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 32% | INNERCIRCLE | 11 | Small, influential group ... and a hint to the word hidden in each answer to a starred clue |
| 32% | WORDSPRONOUNCED | 15 | With 36- and 58-Across, what the answers to the starred clues are |
| 32% | BUTTERCHURN | 11 | Dairy implement, and a hint to what's hidden in 16-, 23-, 32-, and 44-Across |
| 32% | JULIUS | 6 | With 25-Across, speaker of the quote hidden in 20-, 37- and 53-Across |
| 32% | OUTOF | 5 | Lacking, and what can go with each word in the answers to starred clues |
| 32% | WHATIMPLEMENT | 13 | With 28-, 48- and 56-Across, riddle whose answer appears in the circled squares |
| 32% | NEW | 3 | With 65- and 66-Across, when to sing the song in the circled squares |
| 32% | BREAKDANCE | 10 | Debut sport at the Paris Olympics, or what 16-, 22-, 36-, and 46-Across do to their circled letters |
| 31% | BEAUTY | 6 | With 33-Down, where to go for the ends of 16-, 20-, 40-, 56- and 62-Across |
| 31% | FRUITLESSLY | 11 | In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across |
| 31% | CANIGETANAMEN | 13 | "Anyone agree with me?" and a hint to what's hidden in the starred answers |
| 31% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | Metaphor for one feeling slighted ... and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues |
| 31% | CHANGEPURSE | 11 | *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? |