| 100% | WINDOW | 6 | (4/6) "You watch in awe as the tape starts whirring and spinning backward behind this tiny glass panel ..." |
| 28% | CASSETTE | 8 | (1/6) "It's a day in the '90s ... You pop this tiny, rectangular device in your tape recorder, and start recording your favorite song!" |
| 24% | IJUSTMETYOU | 11 | "Hey, ___, and this is crazy ..." (start of the chorus in 40-Across): 4 wds. |
| 23% | VIDEOS | 6 | You could watch these on a VHS in the 80s |
| 22% | LAS | 3 | In Deck the Halls, you sing a lot of Fas and these |
| 22% | ADELE | 5 | Voice behind "Rolling in the Deep," "Hello" and "Someone Like You" |
| 22% | EVEN | 4 | Numbers like 2, 4, and 6, that you'd use in math class |
| 21% | SEAT | 4 | Behind the car ___, location in your vehicle where you may find loose change and lost keys |
| 21% | JACKINTHEBOXES | 14 | Some surprises ... and what you'll find in the circled areas of this puzzle |
| 21% | BEES | 4 | Busy buzzers ... and letters found at the start of every clue in this puzzle |
| 21% | OPPENHEIMER | 11 | Film starring Cillian Murphy as the "father of the atomic bomb" that you probably watched in theaters in 2023 |
| 21% | TRICKORTREAT | 12 | What is found divided at the starts and ends of nine answers in this puzzle |
| 21% | REVERSE | 7 | What the numbers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 are in |
| 21% | BASEBALL | 8 | UK game once known as "rounders", referenced in the 1740's and now known as this |
| 21% | ROAD | 4 | In the city of Ur you could have walked along a paved one of these 6,000 years ago |
| 20% | EGG | 3 | Omelet ingredient and the theme of this puzzle, as seen in 28a, 45a, 7d, 11d, and 31d! |
| 20% | TYRA | 4 | Emily ___, "Code Black" actress who trained in ballet and started as a dancer at the Boston Ballet |
| 20% | RICHARDWILBUR | 13 | American poet behind "Things of This World" who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957 and 1989: 2 wds. |
| 20% | TBIRD | 5 | Classic car ... and a hint to the hidden image you can draw using 21 identical squares in this grid |
| 20% | HERO | 4 | *Person who saves the day... and a word you may use to describe those being celebrated in this puzzle |
| 20% | NEYMAR | 6 | Brazilian FIFA athlete who plays for Santos FC and someone you can play as in the video game "Fortnite" |
| 20% | MADD | 4 | Tree with edible fruit, native to western Africa, known as the weda in French and the Moore language, but known as this in Wolof |
| 20% | FURIOSA | 7 | "___: A Mad Max Saga," spin-off starring Anya Taylor-Joy that you can watch on the big screen in 2024 |
| 20% | FISHORCUTBAIT | 13 | Line to the indecisive, and what you'll need to add in order to complete some lines in this puzzle |
| 20% | DONUT | 5 | Treat whose varieties appear at the starts of four long answers and are represented a dozen times in this puzzle |
| 20% | NSFW | 4 | "Careful where you watch this," in emails |
| 20% | SUN | 3 | Gainesville's daily, started in 1876 as the Times, but renamed in 1879 to this |
| 19% | ITSGROWINGONME | 14 | "I'm starting to like this" ... or a hint to the starts of 16-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across, in order |
| 19% | ADOZENROSES | 11 | What you can find in the grid after completing this puzzle, looking up, down, left, right and diagonally, word search-style |
| 19% | UNCOLA | 6 | Geoffrey Holder described the lemon and lime he held in the 1970's 7 Up ads as these kind of "nuts" |