| 100% | ORIGINSTORES | 12 | The Macy's in New York's Herald Square, and others? |
| 47% | BARRIOS | 7 | New York's Spanish Harlem and others |
| 46% | CHANGINGDIAPERS | 15 | New father's task, maybe ... and what the three other longest puzzle answers have in common? |
| 46% | TKTS | 4 | Popular booth in New York's Times Square |
| 45% | SIANO | 5 | Nicky ___, DJ and music producer who was an integral part of New York's disco clubs in the 1970s |
| 45% | ART | 3 | The "A" in New York City's "MoMA" |
| 44% | STATIONS | 8 | Times Square and Columbus Circle, in New York City |
| 44% | METS | 4 | New York team that won the World Series in 1969 and 1986 |
| 43% | EST | 3 | Clock setting in New York that is key to the Times Square Ball Drop: Abbr. |
| 43% | ELLS | 4 | The black square chunk in front of 55-, 60- and 63-Across, and others |
| 43% | NEEDLE | 6 | Cleopatra's __, obelisks in New York and London |
| 42% | ERICS | 5 | New York City mayor Adams and others |
| 42% | ANIMAL | 6 | One of many seen in the board games Ark Nova and New York Zoo |
| 42% | EWER | 4 | Some people suspect there are crocodiles living in the New York City s___s |
| 42% | FALLS | 5 | The Niagara ___, located in New York, that is one of America's natural wonders |
| 42% | ARMORYSHOW | 10 | The —, International Exhibition of Modern Art as organised by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors in New York in 1913 |
| 42% | CHRYSLER | 8 | New York's ___ Building, tallest in the world in 1930 |
| 42% | JACOBRIIS | 9 | Muckraker whose 1890 photography book "How the Other Half Lives" exposed conditions in New York City slums: 2 wds. |
| 41% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer and director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 41% | AUTUMN | 6 | Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's fall song "___ in New York" |
| 41% | CYNTHIANIXON | 12 | "Sex and the City" actress who unsuccessfully ran for New York governor in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 41% | BEST | 4 | The ___ Burger in New York, Marshall's find from "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 40% | PANAM | 5 | The Beatles arrived in New York in 1964 on this |
| 40% | TORCH | 5 | Symbol in the New York Liberty's logo |
| 40% | WESTPOINT | 9 | Academy near the Culinary Institute in New York |
| 40% | TAXIS | 5 | Cabs, like the yellow ones in New York |
| 40% | SEXANDTHECITY | 13 | Whence the line “Women come to New York in search of the two Ls: labels and love” |
| 40% | WEST | 4 | New York-to-California direction (and where this answer is in the diagram) |
| 40% | OREO | 4 | Snack that's the most-used brand name in New York Times crosswords |
| 40% | MACYS | 5 | Flagship store at New York City's Herald Square |