| 100% | BENDOVER | 8 | With 41-Across, make every effort to be accommodating |
| 46% | FOLLOW | 6 | With 41 Across, be a snowbird, say |
| 46% | BLUE | 4 | Word with "bell" to make a purple bloom that is spread across North America |
| 42% | TWOHUNDREDTH | 12 | With 41 and 55 Across, what 15 Across is |
| 41% | REDVELVET | 9 | Layered cake that used to be made with beets |
| 40% | TURNBACK | 8 | With 65 Across, return to the way it was |
| 40% | AIR | 3 | With 41-Across, it makes short hops |
| 39% | GAMERTAGS | 9 | Handles made to be played with |
| 38% | STRAIN | 6 | Make every effort |
| 38% | EXERT | 5 | Make every effort |
| 38% | BENDBACKWARDS | 13 | Make every effort |
| 38% | THATSHALF | 9 | With 42-Across, encouraging words to someone making a good effort, and an apt description of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 38% | BIRD | 4 | With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 37% | AIR | 3 | With 41-Across, countertop kitchen appliance similar to a convection oven |
| 37% | HAHN | 4 | With 41 Across, German chemist |
| 37% | KIMMULKEY | 9 | Coach of 41-Across who is the only coach in women's college basketball to win national championships with two teams (2 wds.) |
| 36% | ONE | 3 | With 41 Across, a vitamin brand |
| 36% | CORNER | 6 | With 41-Across, corporate status symbol ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| 36% | WINKS | 5 | 41-Across, with respect to this answer's location |
| 36% | MANGO | 5 | Tropical delight with a golden flesh that will make a luscious addition to 37d |
| 36% | CHARLES | 7 | With 41-Across, British novelist whose 200th birthday was celebrated on February 7, 2012 |
| 35% | HER | 3 | With 22-Across, what Johnny was to Frankie |
| 35% | STATE | 5 | With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is |
| 35% | STEALTH | 7 | With 88 Across, what this diagram is an aerial view of (eight, to be exact) |
| 35% | LUCKING | 7 | "He keeps ___ out every time, but fate is going to catch up with him soon." |
| 35% | GOTOTHEWALL | 11 | Make every conceivable effort |
| 35% | WENTTOTHEWALL | 13 | Made every possible effort |
| 35% | ARE | 3 | To be with you? |
| 35% | ARE | 3 | To be, with you? |
| 35% | CARRYING | 8 | To be pregnant with |