| 100% | HONOURS | 7 | Knighthoods and damehoods given at New Year |
| 41% | SENTENCEDTOYALE | 15 | Given “four years at a New Haven university” as punishment for a crime? |
| 40% | FRESHSTART | 10 | What a new year can give you ... or what 17-, 23-, 34-, and 49-Across can have? |
| 38% | PEASALAD | 8 | Side dish popular at New Year's |
| 37% | THAILAND | 8 | Country where people throw water at New Year |
| 37% | SHEHUO | 6 | Lantern festival held in NW China at New Year |
| 37% | BAISAKHI | 8 | New year celebrated by Sikhs and Hindus |
| 36% | CAKE | 4 | Dessert that might get cut at New Year's parties |
| 36% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (occasion with champagne at midnight) |
| 36% | VICE | 4 | Habit one may resolve to give up at New Year's |
| 35% | EVES | 4 | Nights before New Year's Day and Christmas |
| 34% | LHOSAR | 6 | Sonam __, New Year's of Tamang and Hyolmo people |
| 33% | EXAM | 4 | What you give at the end of an academic year |
| 33% | DOJACAT | 7 | 13-Across, 19-Across, and 38-Across singer who was named New Artist of the Year at the 2020 American Music Awards (2 wds.) |
| 33% | RINKS | 5 | Winter sights at New York's Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park |
| 32% | STOMP | 5 | Show still running at New York's Orpheum Theater after 25 years |
| 32% | GRAMMYS | 7 | Record of the Year and Best New Artist |
| 31% | DRAGONDANCE | 11 | Sight at Chinese New Year |
| 31% | REDENVELOPE | 11 | Traditional Lunar New Year gift . . . and a feature of three answers in this puzzle |
| 31% | MMI | 3 | New millennium year, or a part of 20-, 37- and 49-Across |
| 30% | FIRSTNIGHT | 10 | New Year's Eve celebration (and SEE TITLE) |
| 30% | PASADENA | 8 | California city that hosts an annual New Year's Day parade and the 49-Across |
| 30% | CNN | 3 | Rival that ranked behind both Fox News and MSNBC last year |
| 30% | LOCAL | 5 | Kind of news often aired at 6 and 11 p.m. |
| 30% | TVSPECIAL | 9 | Seasonal festive broadcast at the New Year |
| 30% | LOSEWEIGHT | 10 | Common New Year's resolution -- as hinted at by the answers to the four starred clues |
| 30% | ONION | 5 | Greeks hang this vegetable on the front door during New Year to bring growth and luck |
| 29% | SCOTT | 5 | Selina —, television presenter whose credits include News at Ten and Breakfast Time |
| 29% | BOSTON | 6 | First Night ___, a New Year's Eve artistic and cultural celebration, that was first held in 1975 |
| 29% | SOBA | 4 | Toshikoshi ___, noodles eaten as a Japanese New Year's Eve tradition for a long and healthy life |