| 100% | PITTER | 6 | With 64-Across, sound of the circled words |
| 70% | VOICE | 5 | With 64-Across, performer who is like the words sounded out at the starts of the answers to the four starred clues |
| 69% | NIMBUS | 6 | With 7-Across, sources of the circled words |
| 63% | CLEAR | 5 | With 64-Across, words that can precede the starts of 18-, 31-, 38- and 55-Across |
| 57% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 55% | JULIUSCAESAR | 12 | Attributed speaker of the circled words |
| 54% | GROWING | 7 | With 41 Across, gradually-apparent problem ... and an explanation of the puzzle's circles? |
| 53% | FOOTBRIDGES | 11 | Pedestrians' spans, and a description of the circled words |
| 52% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 27 Across, Oxford's Word of the Year for 2022, defined as self-indulgent behavior |
| 52% | SOLONG | 6 | With 20 Across, "The Sound of Music" song |
| 52% | TENNIS | 6 | With 41-Across, question associated with the last words of 17-, 26-, 55- and 64-Across |
| 52% | THERESNOTWO | 11 | With 64-Across, words of certainty ... or a hint to 23-, 40- and 56-Across |
| 50% | MIDDLEAGE | 9 | Crisis time, for some ... or a hint to each of the circled words |
| 50% | FAB | 3 | With the circled squares of 35-Across, subject of this puzzle |
| 49% | ONOMATOPOEIA | 12 | Word sounded out by the ends of 20-, 35- and 40-Across |
| 49% | IRON | 4 | With 21 Across, one of the Avengers |
| 49% | GEORGE | 6 | With 39 Across, coiner of the slogan |
| 49% | LEONARD | 7 | With 18 Across, recipient of the comment |
| 49% | WATER | 5 | With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of |
| 48% | ALLFORONE | 9 | With 24 Across, slogan of The Three Musketeers |
| 48% | CENTRAL | 7 | With 68-Across, the circled part of this crossword |
| 48% | APOCOPE | 7 | Omission of the final sound of a word |
| 47% | SISTER | 6 | With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters |
| 47% | PING | 4 | With 57-Across, game that includes the starts of 17-, 29-, 48- and 64-Across |
| 47% | LINCOLN | 7 | With 124-Across, dedicated in October 1913, project represented by the 13 pairs of circled letters |
| 46% | TINYTIM | 7 | Speaker of the words in the circled squares, expressed literally |
| 46% | GEORGE | 6 | With 24 Across, loser of the first really serious pie fight? |
| 46% | OTIS | 4 | With 72 Across, the King of Elevator Music? |
| 46% | ANGLE | 5 | Relationship of the circled letters to the apt words they connect to in this puzzle |
| 46% | ICE | 3 | With 64-Across, symbol of coldness |