| 100% | RODIN | 5 | His "The Gates of Hell" depicts a scene from Dante's "In*rno" |
| 41% | BAND | 4 | "The Boys in the ___," 2020 drama film where Jim Parsons reprised his role from a 2018 Broadway show of the same name |
| 39% | FLED | 4 | Skedaddled, as from the scene of a crime |
| 39% | EXTRA | 5 | Member of the crowd, in a movie scene |
| 38% | LOT | 3 | His wife turned into a pillar of salt, in the Bible |
| 38% | PARIS | 5 | "From hell to breakfast in ___," idiom with the French capital that means "go through a wide range of experiences" |
| 38% | ONFIRE | 6 | In the middle of a hell of winning streak |
| 38% | FLASHBACK | 9 | A book scene from before the start of the story |
| 38% | GEYSER | 6 | Eruption of water from a hot spring in the ground |
| 38% | IMIT | 4 | Starting words from the tagger in a game of tag |
| 38% | AZIMUTH | 7 | In surveying, the horizontal angle of a bearing clockwise from a standard direction |
| 38% | ISCARIOT | 8 | Resident of the lowest circle of hell, in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 37% | MLK | 3 | Initials of the reverend with a January holiday in his honor |
| 37% | PELE | 4 | Christ the Redeemer wore a facsimile of his jersey in 2023 |
| 37% | RUDOLPH | 7 | Who's depicted in this puzzle when the circled letters are connected from A to Z and back to A |
| 37% | CHEERS | 6 | Rallying words from fans in the stands, or a cry to mark the New Year's tradition of raising glasses |
| 37% | BEAT | 4 | "___ It," a hit single from Michael Jackson's album in 16a that won a Grammy for "Record of the Year" |
| 37% | BYATT | 5 | A S —, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden |
| 37% | OMEN | 4 | Something interpreted from a bird's behavior, in the ancient Greek practice of ornithomancy |
| 37% | NETSUKE | 7 | In Japan, a carved toggle of wood or ivory worn dangling from the waist |
| 37% | NERO | 4 | Winner of all of his events in the A.D. 67 Olympics |
| 37% | LIMBO | 5 | First circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno" |
| 37% | EXTRA | 5 | Person in the background of a movie scene |
| 37% | AMER | 4 | From the U.S. of A. |
| 37% | BAULK | 5 | In croquet, either of the two lines from which a ball is struck into play |
| 37% | UNITE | 5 | — the Union, organisation formed in 2007 from a merger of Amicus and the TGWU |
| 37% | EASTERNCOUGAR | 13 | A subspecies of puma from North America which was formally declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 37% | BIGDIPPER | 9 | Part of 17-Across ... and what the circles from A to G depict |
| 36% | SURABAYA | 8 | City in East Java; scene of a 1945 battle in the Indonesian National Revolution |
| 36% | REDDEER | 7 | City in S Alberta, Canada, on a major tributary of the South Saskatchewan River |