| 100% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 55% | EXTRA | 5 | With 55-Down, kicker's contribution, and what's found in the circled letters |
| 52% | SQUARE | 6 | With 55-Across, what the circled letters, reading clockwise, form |
| 50% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 48% | STATESWONBYBARACKOBAMA | 22 | With 90-Across, what the 28 circled squares in this puzzle represent |
| 48% | DOUBLE | 6 | With 55-Down, form of the contents of the circled letters |
| 47% | SPIN | 4 | With the circled word in the grid's center, what each circled word is? |
| 47% | DEBT | 4 | With 11 Down, much-debated political limit ... and what the puzzle's circled squares compose? |
| 45% | SOAKUPTHESUN | 12 | 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways |
| 44% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 44% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ (aware of what's happening) |
| 43% | COIN | 4 | With 55-Down, actions that can be performed nine times in this puzzle without affecting any of the clues? |
| 43% | BADPENNY | 8 | With "a," someone undesirable ... and what's found in the circled letters? |
| 42% | TRIPLE | 6 | With 47-Down, multitalented Broadway star ... or what's "veiled" in this puzzle's circles |
| 41% | COMICSTRIPS | 11 | What happens in the stand-up show at the nudist club? |
| 41% | ILOSTIT | 7 | What happened "at the Movies" in a 1965 Pauline Kael title |
| 41% | BARACK | 6 | With 29 Down, president born in the '60s |
| 41% | WATERFALLS | 10 | What the circles in this puzzle hold |
| 41% | SEA | 3 | What the beach stays in touch with |
| 41% | TIME | 4 | With 63-Across, what (in abbreviated form) has been added to the long Down answers |
| 41% | FIFTH | 5 | With 45-Down, subversive groups ... or what the answers in the circled squares comprise? |
| 41% | BADMOONRISING | 13 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit with the line "I see trouble on the way," or what can be found in three long Down entries |
| 40% | HIDDENGEMS | 10 | What the long Across answers with circles have |
| 40% | OVERLAP | 7 | What the circles in a Venn diagram do |
| 40% | PARTRIDGE | 9 | With the contents of this grid's circles, part of the refrain in 3-/6-/9-Down |
| 40% | PAVEDROAD | 9 | What the circled squares in this puzzle symbolize |
| 40% | LAYER | 5 | With 67-Across, what five pairs of answers in the circles represent |
| 40% | SKISLOPES | 9 | Spots for moguls, and what happens in each set of circles |
| 40% | HIP | 3 | Down with what the kids are into these days |
| 40% | MASSACRES | 9 | What the guy in Texas with the chainsaw does |