| 100% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year that marks the arrival of spring |
| 69% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese holiday that marks the arrival of spring |
| 63% | TET | 3 | Holiday that marks the arrival of spring |
| 48% | EQUINOX | 7 | Event that marks the start of spring or autumn |
| 46% | EQUINOX | 7 | Astronomical event that marks the beginning of spring or autumn |
| 46% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year, celebrated on the first day of the Lunar calendar |
| 43% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year celebrated during the first seven days of the first lunar month of the year |
| 43% | HOLI | 4 | Festival of colors in Hinduism that celebrates the arrival of spring |
| 42% | TET | 3 | Vietnamese New Year, which is represented by the Zodiac animals at the starts of the answers to the starred clues |
| 42% | FESTIVAL | 8 | The Lantern __ marks the end of Chinese New Year |
| 42% | TET | 3 | Holiday celebrating the arrival of spring |
| 42% | ROBIN | 5 | Bird symbolizing the arrival of spring |
| 42% | HOLI | 4 | Festival celebrating the arrival of spring |
| 40% | SHAM | 4 | ___ Ennessim: Egypt's national holiday that marks the beginning of spring |
| 40% | MARCH | 5 | Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars |
| 40% | STRANGE | 7 | ___ Horizons, online speculative fiction magazine that publishes new material 51 weeks of the year |
| 38% | USHERSIN | 8 | Signals the arrival of, as a new era |
| 38% | TIME | 4 | News magazine that runs a "Person of the Year" feature that released its first issue in 1923 |
| 38% | TET | 3 | Celebration of the arrival of spring |
| 38% | EID | 3 | Holiday that marks the end of Ramadan |
| 37% | MTDANA | 6 | Peak that marks the eastern boundary of Yosemite Natl. Park |
| 37% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (final day of the year) |
| 37% | CUSP | 4 | Point that marks the beginning of a change |
| 37% | BOUNDARY | 8 | Line that marks the limits of an area |
| 37% | AUGUST | 6 | Month that marks the start of Virgo season |
| 37% | EROICA | 6 | Work that marked the start of musical Romanticism |
| 37% | CHINESE | 7 | __ New Year, also known as the Spring Festival |
| 37% | TWO | 3 | Number of years that passed before the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached African Americans in 25-Across |
| 37% | BIRTHDAY | 8 | Celebration that marks another year of life |
| 37% | BOOMER | 6 | New arrival of the 1950s? |