| 100% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 55-Down, form of the contents of the circled letters |
| 70% | ITALIAN | 7 | With 49-Down, its form follows the pattern of the circled letters |
| 63% | WATSON | 6 | Co-discoverer of the contents of the circled letters |
| 63% | CRICK | 5 | Co-discoverer of the contents of the circled letters |
| 61% | SQUARE | 6 | With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form |
| 55% | EXTRA | 5 | With 55-Down, kicker's contribution, and what's found in the circled letters |
| 55% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | With the contents of this grid's circles, part of the refrain in 3-/6-/9-Down |
| 54% | CROSS | 5 | With 36-Down, intersection ... as suggested by the circled letters in the middle of this puzzle? |
| 54% | PERFECTSQUARE | 13 | With some unscrambling, the contents of each set of circles |
| 53% | APICAL | 6 | Formed with the tip of the tongue, like the letter L |
| 52% | LAYER | 5 | With 51-Down, description of the circled answers? |
| 52% | PARTNERS | 8 | With the circled letters, investors not involved in the management of their businesses |
| 51% | ISMELLTHEBLOOD | 14 | With 50-Down, cry made in [the circled letters] after the starts of 54-, 33-, 30- and 14-Down |
| 50% | THREE | 5 | With the circled letters, a literal depiction of what you need to win tic-tac-toe? |
| 50% | MEHDEINCANADA | 13 | Like all the answers with pairs of circled letters, punnily |
| 49% | WATER | 5 | With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of |
| 48% | INSIDEJOB | 9 | Betrayal of trust, hinted at by the circled letters, which form an apt John le Carré title |
| 48% | SHELLCOMPANIES | 14 | Corporations with little business activity, and what are formed by the circled letters |
| 48% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 48% | THREEPIECESUITS | 15 | Exec outfits, and the contents of the circled spaces |
| 48% | LINCOLN | 7 | With 124-Across, dedicated in October 1913, project represented by the 13 pairs of circled letters |
| 48% | NOTHINGINCOMMON | 15 | Lack of similar interests, and what the three long answers with circled letters have? |
| 47% | ROLLTHEDICE | 11 | Take a chance, and how to form the sequence in each set of circled letters |
| 47% | BOBOLINKS | 9 | Birds with short finch-like bills ... or, what the sets of circled letters literally are? |
| 47% | TOCALLEACHOTHER | 15 | End of the question (Rearrange the circled letters for the answer) |
| 46% | PLANETARY | 9 | With 36-Down, astronomical rarity ... or a hint to the circled letters |
| 46% | SQUARE | 6 | With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters |
| 46% | SINKING | 7 | With 43-Down, uneasy anticipation ... and a hint to the circled letters |
| 46% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 46% | PITTER | 6 | With 64-Across, sound of the circled words |