| 100% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 56% | THELOCUSTTREEINFLOWER | 21 | 1935 poem with one word per line ... as spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 49% | PHONETIC | 8 | Apt word spelled out by the first letters of eight answers in this puzzle |
| 48% | TEST | 4 | Any of the eight circled words in this puzzle, and what's spelled out by their intersections |
| 45% | TINAFEY | 7 | Writer of the bestseller spelled out in this puzzle's circled squares |
| 45% | EARLOFCHESTER | 13 | One title for this puzzle's subject, spelled in order by the circled letters |
| 45% | VINCENT | 7 | With 50-Across, Dutch painter represented by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | SPREADTHEWEALTH | 15 | Be generous with one's good fortune, as depicted by the movement of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 44% | PHYSICS | 7 | Science that deals with the phenomenon spelled out by 10 missing letters in this puzzle |
| 43% | THEPRICEISRIGHT | 15 | Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | PLOT | 4 | What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | 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 |
| 43% | ITSRAINING | 10 | With 63-Across, the opening lines to a nursery rhyme suggested by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 43% | TEN | 3 | Number of mispelled words in this puzzle's clues (oh, by the way, watch out for those tricky circled squares!) |
| 43% | TARA | 4 | Author Westover whose memoir is spelled out in the first letters of this puzzle's eight circled schools |
| 42% | BIGBEND | 7 | National park along the Rio Grande, represented by this puzzle's circled words |
| 41% | CROSS | 5 | With 36-Down, intersection ... as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? |
| 41% | THATSHALF | 9 | With 42-Across, encouraging words to someone making a good effort, and an apt description of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | BASEBALLDIAMOND | 15 | Setting for a 20-Across ... as represented by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 41% | FAB | 3 | With the circled squares of 35-Across, subject of this puzzle |
| 40% | FAIRYTALEENDING | 15 | What’s spelled out by the starts of six answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | FALL | 4 | Season with color changes, as represented literally by the circled letters |
| 39% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 39% | INFANT | 6 | One delivered by the labor specialist spelled out in the circled letters that touch six dividing black squares in this puzzle |
| 39% | PINACOLADA | 10 | What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers |
| 39% | HAND | 4 | Poker holding ... like the one spelled out in the letters that cut this puzzle's circled cards |
| 39% | LINCOLN | 7 | With 124-Across, dedicated in October 1913, project represented by the 13 pairs of circled letters |
| 39% | FORGERY | 7 | Apt word spelled by the new letters that alter this puzzle's seven works |
| 39% | ROTATECLOCKWISE | 15 | How to see the image formed by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 39% | FIDDLER | 7 | Musical featuring the song depicted by this puzzle's circled letters, familiarly |