| 100% | BRIDGET | 7 | "___ Jones' Diary," a film that gets its' main plot device from the events of a new year party |
| 38% | MAY | 3 | "To Whom It ___ Concern," 2016 film starring Wilmer Valderrama ... or the start of a New Year's wish highlighted in this puzzle |
| 35% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |
| 35% | JAMSPOON | 8 | Device to get spreads from the bottom of a jar |
| 34% | BRIDGET | 7 | "___ Jones's Diary," 1996 novel by Helen Fielding in which the titular character meets her lover at a New Year's party |
| 33% | PAPARAZZI | 9 | Term that comes from the name of a news photographer in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” |
| 33% | ERASERHEAD | 10 | David Lynch film that gets its title from a scene at a pencil factory |
| 33% | BEAT | 4 | "___ It," a hit single from Michael Jackson's album in 16a that won a Grammy for "Record of the Year" |
| 32% | SONY | 4 | Tech giant that originally got its name from a combination of the Latin word for sound and a slang term for a young boy |
| 32% | KEWPIEDOLL | 10 | Toy that gets its name from the Roman god of love |
| 32% | LUGE | 4 | Olympic event that gets its name from the French word for “sled” |
| 32% | TBONESTEAK | 10 | Beef cut that gets its name from the shape of the lumbar vertebra |
| 32% | EXPOSURE | 8 | The amount of light that gets to a piece of film |
| 32% | ONE | 3 | (5/5) End of a New Year's countdown...or the number that follows 31 on the calendar |
| 31% | ABBA | 4 | Group that celebrated its 50th anniversary with a Grammy Record of the Year nomination |
| 31% | CLINIQUE | 8 | Company that gets a lot of its money from foundations? |
| 31% | TEN | 3 | Roll that could get you from one corner of a Monopoly board to the next |
| 31% | FLIGHT | 6 | "The ___ of the Phoenix," 1965 film starring James Stewart ... or part of a New Year's wish highlighted in this puzzle |
| 31% | POMPOM | 6 | It may be waved from the top of a pyramid |
| 31% | PEZ | 3 | It may be taken from the neck of a superhero |
| 30% | AMA | 3 | Doctors' organization that publishes 48 issues a year of its main journal: Abbr. |
| 30% | TBONE | 5 | Type of steak that takes its name from a letter of the alphabet: Hyph. |
| 30% | VIEW | 4 | "You get a great ___ of the city from that tower" |
| 30% | RING | 4 | Boxer's arena, or a New Year's tradition that announces the beginning of the New Year (with "in") |
| 30% | SUEDE | 5 | It's from the underside of a hide |
| 30% | INTERNET | 8 | Notable invention from the 20th century, that is a "network of networks", connecting devices worldwide |
| 30% | GENIE | 5 | Fictional character from the film "Aladdin" that comes out of a lamp and grants wishes |
| 30% | PROUDMARY | 9 | Girl in a Tina Turner song from the soundtrack of "What's Love Got to Do with It": 2 wds. |
| 30% | ASH | 3 | It's flicked from the end of a cigarette |
| 29% | REM | 3 | Band that took its name from a stage of sleep Michael Stipe found in the dictionary |