| 100% | OREO | 4 | "Biscuit" first produced in Chelsea, Manhattan in 1912 and sold at the price of 25 cents a pound |
| 34% | POSITION | 8 | Pole __, in first position at the start of a race |
| 32% | GOINGFOR | 8 | Selling at a price of |
| 32% | EDITHWHARTON | 12 | 13-Across and 25-Across writer who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her 1920 novel "The Age of Innocence" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | ECARTE | 6 | In ballet, a position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body |
| 31% | AERO | 4 | Prefix that's at the start of the first "A" in "NASA" |
| 31% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | Moves in the shape of A's, O's and U's at a disco? |
| 31% | DOT | 3 | It comes between the dollars and cents numbers in a price |
| 31% | COLUMBIA | 8 | ___ University, located in Upper Manhattan, which is a member of the Ivy league and has a crown in their logo |
| 31% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 31% | TAKEBYSTORM | 11 | Rapidly achieve success in, and a description of the juxtaposed circled words at the top of the puzzle |
| 31% | HUCKLEBERRY | 11 | ___ Finn, a fictional character who first appeared in 51a and is a friend of the protagonist |
| 31% | VIEW | 4 | The apartment was at a great price and had a great ___ of the city |
| 31% | EGER | 4 | Tourist city in Heves, northeast Hungary, at the centre of a wine-producing region |
| 30% | MANHATTAN | 9 | Borough at the center of a beleaguered congestion-pricing plan in 2024 |
| 30% | SEEMEAFTERCLASS | 15 | Ominous message at the top of a returned assignment ... and a hint to the beginning of four answers in this puzzle? |
| 30% | BRINGUPTOSPEED | 14 | Loop in, and a hint to the progression found at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 30% | ONCD | 4 | How a lot of music got sold in the 1990s and early 2000s |
| 30% | EGER | 4 | Tourist city in NE Hungary at the centre of a wine-producing region |
| 30% | EGER | 4 | Tourist city in northeast Hungary at the centre of a wine-producing region |
| 30% | TIMES | 5 | Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse |
| 30% | SIDESALAD | 9 | Dish that may accompany a main course, and what can be found at the start of 17-, 25-, 38-, or 53-Across? |
| 30% | SCAN | 4 | Check the price of, in a way |
| 30% | SCANS | 5 | Checks the price of, in a way |
| 30% | MAEJEMISON | 10 | The first Black female astronaut and winner of a National Achievement Scholarship in 1973: 2 wds. |
| 30% | GOT | 3 | First book in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire," familiarly |
| 30% | WALTDISNEY | 10 | Company that produced the movies in the first parts of 18-, 26- and 46-Across |
| 30% | PUTARINGONIT | 12 | Lock in a spouse, and what the first letters of six Down answers do visually |
| 29% | PLEASE | 6 | The P in PTO, found at the bottom of a page |
| 29% | HOWIWISH | 8 | With 94- and 72-Across, a mnemonic for the first eight digits of [symbol in the middle of the grid] |