| 100% | MALONETIME | 10 | Karl's years with the Utah Jazz? |
| 51% | JOHNSTOCKTON | 12 | NBA Hall-of-Famer who spent his entire career with the Utah Jazz (1984-2003): 2 wds. |
| 51% | WALKERKESSLER | 13 | Utah Jazz center who finished third in the NBA's 2022-2023 Rookie of the Year Award voting: 2 wds. |
| 44% | SLC | 3 | Capital that's home to the Utah Jazz, for short |
| 44% | ALEC | 4 | Burks of the Utah Jazz |
| 44% | SLC | 3 | Utah home of the NBA's Jazz (Abbr.) |
| 43% | IBM | 3 | Company with the most U.S. patents per year since 1993 |
| 43% | NINETEEN | 8 | With 56-Across, The New Yorker’s founding year |
| 42% | OLD | 3 | "Out with the ___, in with the new" (common New Year's idiom) |
| 42% | GOBLIN | 6 | With 13-Across, Oxford's 2022 Word of the Year |
| 42% | BENSON | 6 | Jazz's George with the triple platinum album "Breezin'" |
| 42% | MMII | 4 | Year of the Utah Winter Olympics |
| 41% | JAM | 3 | Improvise with the jazz band |
| 40% | BIDEN | 5 | Time's 2020 Person of the Year, along with Harris |
| 40% | NEPTUNE | 7 | Watery planet with the longest year |
| 40% | SCORPIO | 7 | Zodiac starts with the letter S |
| 40% | TEAMMATE | 8 | Derek Jeter, to Mariano Rivera, for 19 years with the Yankees |
| 40% | MALONE | 6 | Karl ___, 16-Across member from the Jazz |
| 39% | WICCA | 5 | Practice with the Wheel of the Year |
| 39% | ANGELA | 6 | With 33-Across, German leader who was Time's 2015 Person of the Year |
| 39% | ENGELS | 6 | Friedrich —, co-author with Karl Marx of 1848's The Communist Manifesto |
| 39% | MARXIAN | 7 | To do with the ideas of Karl Marx |
| 39% | NBA | 3 | League with the Jazz and the Magic: Abbr. |
| 39% | APR | 3 | Mo. with the 100th day of the year |
| 39% | JUNE | 4 | Month with the longest day of the year |
| 39% | DEC | 3 | Mo. with the shortest day of the year |
| 39% | PLYMOUTHROCK | 12 | Landmark with the year 1620 inscribed on it |
| 39% | ANI | 3 | DiFranco with the 2008 album "Red Letter Year" |
| 39% | TESLA | 5 | Car company with the models S and X |
| 39% | TESLA | 5 | Automaker with the Model S and Model X |