| 100% | VEGAS | 5 | "What happens in ___ ..." |
| 100% | PLOT | 4 | What happens in a story |
| 100% | PLOT | 4 | What happens in a movie |
| 100% | PLOT | 4 | What happens in a novel |
| 93% | HOMEFLIES | 9 | What happens in one scene in "The Wizard of Oz"? |
| 92% | SPOILER | 7 | Comment that reveals what happens in a film |
| 91% | COMICSTRIPS | 11 | What happens in the stand-up show at the nudist club? |
| 91% | FORESIGHT | 9 | The ability to predict what happens in the future |
| 88% | SKISLOPES | 9 | Spots for moguls, and what happens in each set of circles |
| 87% | DISAPPEARED | 11 | Faded away, and what happened in 17-, 26-, and 42-Across? |
| 87% | REPRISES | 8 | Repeated musical passages, and what happens in five answers in this puzzle |
| 86% | VEGAS | 5 | "What happens in __ ... " |
| 85% | COLLAPSED | 9 | Fell apart, what happened to SVB in 2023 |
| 84% | NIGHT | 5 | With 55-Down, what happens multilingually in the circles |
| 84% | ILOSTIT | 7 | What happened "at the Movies" in a 1965 Pauline Kael title |
| 83% | LEIGHSHOVESYOU | 14 | What happens after getting in Vivien's way on a movie set? |
| 82% | MINORKEY | 8 | What “The Room Where It Happens” is in |
| 82% | NEWS | 4 | What's happening in the world |
| 82% | VEGAS | 5 | "What happens in ___ stays ..." |
| 81% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 80% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ (aware of what's happening) |
| 80% | DEMOLISHED | 10 | What happened to the Riviera, opened by Liberace in Vegas in 1955, in 2015 |
| 80% | STOCKEXCHANGE | 13 | Wall Street site, and what happened in order to form the answers to the starred clues? |
| 79% | REDROSE | 7 | Valentine's Day gift, and what happened six times in this puzzle |
| 79% | STAYS | 5 | "What happens in Vegas ___ in Vegas" |
| 77% | MIDASTOUCH | 10 | Moneymaking skill ... or, when read as three words, what happens in 17-, 21-, 35-, 45- and 54-Across |
| 77% | VEGAS | 5 | "What Happens in ___," movie starring Cameron Diaz |
| 77% | VEGAS | 5 | "What Happens in ___," movie starring Ashton Kutcher |
| 77% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 75% | ASHTON | 6 | Actor ___ Kutcher from "What Happens in Vegas" |