| 100% | TIMESSQUARE | 11 | Facebook Status: "10-9-8-7 ... Ringing in the New Year with 1,000,000 of my newest, closest friends!" |
| 35% | JURYOFYOURPIERCE | 16 | Facebook friends weighing in on the new belly button ring? |
| 34% | NEPAL | 5 | Country with 8 of 10 tallest peaks in the world |
| 34% | SEAN | 4 | With 8-Down, Samwise Gamgee player in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| 34% | BIGBEN | 6 | It rings in the new year in London |
| 34% | REVERSE | 7 | What the numbers 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 are in |
| 33% | MANOWAR | 7 | Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920 |
| 32% | BOISE | 5 | City that rings in the New Year by dropping a huge potato |
| 32% | AARON | 5 | With 30-Across, New York Yankees slugger who was Time's Athlete of the Year in 2022 |
| 32% | MERRY | 5 | ___ Brandybuck, close friend of Frodo who is portrayed by Dominic Monaghan in "The Lord of the Rings" films |
| 31% | BOOKS | 5 | Things people resolve to read more of in the New Year |
| 31% | NIGHTMOVES | 10 | Top 10 song by 46-Across with the lyrics "Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | FAMILIES | 8 | Friends and __, the kin you spend New Year with |
| 31% | PEACE | 5 | State of calmness that is often wished for in the New Year |
| 31% | TODO | 4 | ___ list (List of resolutions to follow in the New Year, perhaps): Hyph. |
| 31% | INOUTLIST | 9 | Catalog of what's trendy and what's not in the new year |
| 30% | ICLAUDIUS | 9 | Novel with the line "My birth occurred in the 744th year after the foundation of Rome by Romulus" |
| 30% | AULD | 4 | With 8- and 9-Across, traditional New Year's song |
| 30% | YEN | 3 | Currency with notes in denominations of 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 |
| 30% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | 10, 9, 8, 7, 6... final moments of a rocket launch |
| 30% | ERIC | 4 | With 1-Down, player of the Hulk in 2003's "Hulk" |
| 30% | BACKWARD | 8 | In reverse order, like the numbers 9, 8, 7... |
| 30% | LIVE | 4 | With 7-Across, be in the lap of luxury |
| 29% | FISH | 4 | Something hidden in 20-, 28-, 43- and 52-Across ... or landed with the help of 1-, 10-, 37- and 63-Across |
| 29% | SAM | 3 | Friend of Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" books |
| 29% | APOLLYON | 8 | Greek name of The Destroyer in Revelation 9:11 in the New Testament |
| 29% | NEW | 3 | Like the year you ring in on January 1 |
| 29% | TET | 3 | First day of the Lunar New Year, in Vietnam |
| 29% | MARCH | 5 | Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars |
| 29% | ALTOON | 6 | Three-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the New York Jets Ring of Honor |