| 100% | VERBOSE | 7 | With an excess of words |
| 59% | POD | 3 | With the previous word, one piece of an Apple earphone |
| 59% | AIR | 3 | With the next word, one piece of an Apple earphone |
| 56% | MEMOIR | 6 | Relative of an autobiography, that shares its root word with "memory" |
| 56% | MAAM | 4 | Word of respect with an apostrophe in the middle |
| 53% | HUMBLE | 6 | Modest, without an excess of pride |
| 53% | EYETO | 5 | With an __ (mindful of) |
| 52% | SERENELY | 8 | With an air of calm |
| 52% | BLASE | 5 | With an attitude of indifference |
| 52% | SNOOTILY | 8 | With an air of haughtiness |
| 51% | GETOUTOFHERE | 12 | "Shoo!," and an instruction that goes with the last words of the answers to the starred clues |
| 51% | SMUGLY | 6 | With an abundance of self-satisfaction |
| 51% | INCAPS | 6 | With an implication of shouting, say |
| 50% | ZYNGA | 5 | Owner of Words With Friends |
| 49% | SILENTW | 7 | Feature of words beginning with "wr" |
| 49% | IMIN | 4 | Words with an ante |
| 49% | CRUE | 4 | One of two words with an umlaut in a metal band's name |
| 49% | ENTER | 5 | Word with an arrow |
| 48% | PHRASE | 6 | Group of words that create an expression |
| 48% | BULLMOOSE | 9 | Mammal with an impressive set of antlers |
| 48% | ACROPHOBE | 9 | Person with an excessive fear of heights |
| 48% | LISA | 4 | Simpson with an I.Q. of 159 |
| 48% | UNTIL | 5 | Word with an end time |
| 48% | YES | 3 | Word of agreeing with something |
| 48% | EVER | 4 | Word with green of glades |
| 48% | THATSHALF | 9 | With 42-Across, encouraging words to someone making a good effort, and an apt description of this puzzle's circled letters |
| 48% | MONTH | 5 | One of the twelve divisions in a year, and a word that has an obscure perfect rhyme with the word "oneth" |
| 47% | HYPERTEXT | 9 | Linking process of words in an e-book |
| 47% | NTUPLE | 6 | Math set with an unspecified number of elements |
| 47% | SHARKS | 6 | Predatory fish with an acute sense of smell |