| 100% | SOREL | 5 | Cartoonist Edward ___, "One of America's foremost political satirists" according to the New York Times |
| 40% | BLOG | 4 | The New York Times crossword's "Wordplay," for one |
| 37% | OCHS | 4 | Adolph who was chief of The New York Times from 1896 to 1935 |
| 36% | COLOR | 5 | 1997 addition to the front page of The New York Times |
| 35% | OCHS | 4 | Adolph of The New York Times |
| 35% | ARTS | 4 | Section of The New York Times |
| 35% | FALLS | 5 | The Niagara ___, located in New York, that is one of America's natural wonders |
| 35% | TAO | 3 | ___ Downtown, New York, one of the most Instagrammed restaurants in the U.S |
| 35% | PAYWALL | 7 | Feature of the New York Times website |
| 34% | OPED | 4 | Term retired by the New York Times in 2021 in favor of "guest essay" |
| 34% | NYACK | 5 | New York home of the painter Edward Hopper |
| 34% | EGO | 3 | One of the three personality parts, according to Freud |
| 34% | STYLE | 5 | Section of The New York Times that covers fashion |
| 34% | MANOWAR | 7 | Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920 |
| 34% | ARTS | 4 | Section of The New York Times where the crossword appears |
| 34% | HUMMINGBIRD | 11 | One of the "dumbest dumb animals," according to 60-Across |
| 33% | AARON | 5 | With 30-Across, New York Yankees slugger who was Time's Athlete of the Year in 2022 |
| 33% | METRO | 5 | Section of The New York Times that covers New York City |
| 33% | PRINT | 5 | "All the News That's Fit to ___" (New York Times slogan) |
| 33% | ELI | 3 | One of the Manning brothers who plays for New York Giants |
| 33% | UPSTATE | 7 | Word referring to the northern part of New York |
| 33% | WEWORK | 6 | New York based coworking startup which crossed the $20 billion mark making it one of the city's highest-valued decacorns |
| 33% | NAOMI | 5 | ___ Smalls, named last year as one of New York magazine's top 100 Most Powerful Drag Queens in America |
| 33% | MARGARETFARRAR | 14 | First puzzle editor of The New York Times |
| 32% | OPED | 4 | The first one in The New York Times appeared in 1970 |
| 32% | QADDAFI | 7 | "Wrong" way to spell a world leader's name in a New York Times crossword, according to a 1999 episode of "The West Wing" |
| 32% | NYT | 3 | The New York Times: Abbr. |
| 32% | ANIMAL | 6 | One of many seen in the board games Ark Nova and New York Zoo |
| 32% | SHEA | 4 | Home of the New York Mets from 1964 to 2008 |