| 100% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word formed by rearranging the letters of another |
| 77% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word formed by rearranging letters of another word |
| 70% | ANAGRAM | 7 | A new word formed by rearranging the letters |
| 64% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Letters of a word rearranged to form another |
| 62% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 55% | FASHIONDESIGNERS | 16 | What you can do by rearranging the letters of 17- and 26-Across |
| 52% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word made from the letters of another |
| 50% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word made out of the letters of another word |
| 50% | STU | 3 | Nickname formed by three consecutive letters of the alphabet |
| 50% | ANAGRAM | 7 | Word or phrase formed by rearranging letters |
| 50% | ANAGRAM | 7 | A word or phrase that can be formed using the letters of another word |
| 49% | OWE | 3 | Word represented by the middle letter of 22-Down |
| 47% | EBWHITE | 7 | Author whose last name's first letter, followed by the two initials that precede his last name, form a word in one of his most famous titles |
| 47% | DRONE | 5 | Bee formed by the letters heard at the starts of this puzzle's theme answers |
| 45% | IROCK | 5 | Boast formed by removing the middle two words of a popular Paul Simon song title |
| 45% | SEPPUKU | 7 | Another word for hara-kiri, the Japanese practice of suicide by disembowelment |
| 45% | TUNIS | 5 | World capital whose name can be formed by removing letters from the end of its country's name |
| 44% | EAST | 4 | Direction you'll find by rearranging the letters in "seat" |
| 43% | INSIDEJOB | 9 | Betrayal of trust, hinted at by the circled letters, which form an apt John le Carré title |
| 42% | APTAGRAM | 8 | Word or phrase whose letters can be rearranged to form another with a similar meaning, such as “moon starer” for “astronomer” |
| 42% | NATURAL | 7 | With 39-Across, subject of study represented literally by the words spelled out by this puzzle's circled letters |
| 42% | QUOTIENT | 8 | The result of dividing one number by another |
| 41% | TSE | 3 | First Cyrillic letter of the word tsar |
| 40% | EEC | 3 | Grp. formed by the Treaty of Rome, 1957 |
| 40% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sung by Pat Boone |
| 40% | SAND | 4 | "Love Letters in the ___," song with an ocean-related word in the title, a version of which was sang by Pat Boone |
| 40% | SEACAVE | 7 | Hole formed by the wave action of the sea |
| 40% | ERASURE | 7 | The removal of one culture by another |
| 40% | SATIRE | 6 | Scrabble sextet that can form a seven-letter word with 18 of the 26 |
| 39% | SMILEYFACE | 10 | What's formed by the circled letters in this puzzle |