| 100% | ANDYROONEY | 10 | His New York Times obit called him "a cranky voice of CBS" |
| 34% | BRIDGE | 6 | Subject of a New York Times column until 2015 |
| 32% | MENWALKONMOON | 13 | New York Times headline of 7/21/69 |
| 31% | COLOR | 5 | Front-page New York Times addition of 1997 |
| 31% | ESSAYS | 6 | Guest ___, what The New York Times calls op-eds |
| 30% | OPEDS | 5 | The New York Times is now calling them "guest essays" |
| 30% | JIMI | 4 | 2010 New York Times best seller subtitled "Sounds Like a Rainbow" |
| 30% | POE | 3 | Lovecraft called him his "God of Fiction" |
| 30% | TASTE | 5 | "Give him a ___ of his own medicine!" |
| 30% | STRIP | 5 | New York ___, a kind of steak |
| 30% | YELL | 4 | A call of raised voice |
| 30% | YORICK | 6 | Of whom Hamlet said "He hath borne me on his back a thousand times" |
| 29% | THREE | 5 | Shortest allowable number of letters for a New York Times crossword answer |
| 29% | OWN | 3 | "I gave him a taste of his ___ medicine" |
| 29% | ADOLPH | 6 | Ochs of New York Times history |
| 29% | OPEDS | 5 | The New York Times started calling them "guest essays" in 2021 |
| 29% | KEN | 3 | Twice, a New York Times puzzle |
| 29% | JONAH | 5 | He had a whale of a time |
| 29% | OPED | 4 | Term retired by the New York Times in 2021 in favor of "guest essay" |
| 29% | ERA | 3 | Most common answer in New York Times crosswords (more than 6% of all puzzles) |
| 28% | OCHS | 4 | Adolph of The New York Times |
| 28% | ARTS | 4 | Section of The New York Times |
| 28% | MOMOFUKU | 8 | Cookbook by David Chang inspired by his New York restaurant chain of the same name |
| 28% | RYE | 3 | New York city on Long Island Sound...and a homophone of 11 Across |
| 28% | USURER | 6 | He takes a lot of interest in his work |
| 28% | ESAU | 4 | He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage |
| 28% | PAYWALL | 7 | Feature of the New York Times website |
| 28% | EZRA | 4 | Klein with a New York Times podcast |
| 28% | MANOWAR | 7 | Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920 |
| 28% | GRETE | 5 | Waitz who won the New York City Marathon a record nine times |