| 100% | BIGBEN | 6 | It rings in the new year in London |
| 63% | BOISE | 5 | City that rings in the New Year by dropping a huge potato |
| 58% | TIMESSQUARE | 11 | Facebook Status: "10-9-8-7 ... Ringing in the New Year with 1,000,000 of my newest, closest friends!" |
| 55% | ALARM | 5 | Ringing in the new day? |
| 52% | SONGKRAN | 8 | Festival celebrating the New Year in Thailand |
| 52% | GOODLUCK | 8 | Sentiments wishing others fortune in the New Year |
| 52% | BAGPIPES | 8 | Instrument that greets the New Year in Scotland |
| 52% | FORCE | 5 | It "awakens" in the new Star Wars movie |
| 50% | ARENA | 5 | It often has a ring in the middle |
| 50% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |
| 50% | BOOKS | 5 | Things people resolve to read more of in the New Year |
| 49% | FIVE | 4 | Last digit in the New Year we're about to welcome: 2025 |
| 49% | PEACE | 5 | State of calmness that is often wished for in the New Year |
| 49% | TODO | 4 | ___ list (List of resolutions to follow in the New Year, perhaps): Hyph. |
| 49% | HAT | 3 | It may be in the ring |
| 49% | INOUTLIST | 9 | Catalog of what's trendy and what's not in the new year |
| 49% | MAY | 3 | "To Whom It ___ Concern," 2016 film starring Wilmer Valderrama ... or the start of a New Year's wish highlighted in this puzzle |
| 48% | GREEK | 5 | The New Testament was written in it |
| 48% | LARIAT | 6 | It may be thrown in the ring |
| 48% | MARCH | 5 | Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars |
| 48% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia ..." |
| 48% | JANUARY | 7 | The month in which a new year starts |
| 47% | CAMBODIA | 8 | Country that celebrates the new year ("Choul Chnam Thmey") in April |
| 47% | SYNE | 4 | The last word in some New Year's poetry |
| 47% | TET | 3 | First day of the Lunar New Year, in Vietnam |
| 47% | FAD | 3 | It's in one year and out the other |
| 46% | GYMS | 4 | Businesses that often see an uptick in membership after the New Year |
| 46% | BALL | 4 | It drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve |
| 46% | TET | 3 | It's usually the same day as Chinese New Year |
| 46% | MADMAGAZINE | 11 | Pac-Man was its "Man of the Year" in 1982 |