| 100% | OMEN | 4 | Warning of what's in the future |
| 89% | OMEN | 4 | Warning of what's coming in the future |
| 62% | DEES | 4 | What's in the middle of "middle" |
| 62% | VEE | 3 | What's in the middle of Nashville? |
| 57% | LOOP | 4 | In the ___ (aware of what's happening) |
| 57% | OMEN | 4 | Sign of what to expect in the future |
| 57% | ESS | 3 | What's right in front of the tee? |
| 55% | INOUTLIST | 9 | Catalog of what's trendy and what's not in the new year |
| 55% | NUT | 3 | What's ''cracked'' in each of the four star-paired answers |
| 54% | LONGU | 5 | What's found in the center of a prune? |
| 53% | SPIT | 4 | What the nests in bird's-nest soup are made of |
| 53% | EDAM | 4 | What's wrapped up in the whole ball of wax? |
| 53% | EVIL | 4 | What lurks in the hearts of men |
| 52% | PROSHOP | 7 | What might be in trouble if it's out of the woods? |
| 52% | GONZO | 5 | In the style of Hunter S. Thompson, say |
| 52% | CANADIANPROVINCE | 16 | What each of the 10 abbreviations in this puzzle's answer stands for |
| 52% | WHITE | 5 | What the color of Bing Crosby's Christmas is, in a 1942 song? |
| 51% | HUG | 3 | What any of the O's in "XOXOXO" represent |
| 51% | KISMET | 6 | What's in the stars |
| 51% | CONTENTS | 8 | What's in the box |
| 51% | NEWS | 4 | What's in the papers |
| 50% | PUNNEDIT | 8 | What the puzzlemaker did to the name in each of this puzzle's theme answers? |
| 50% | OBEYS | 5 | What a participant in Yale's Milgram experiment of 1961 does, most of the time |
| 50% | ALROKER | 7 | "Here's what's happening in your neck of the woods" speaker |
| 50% | PALM | 4 | What fits in the Venn diagram of "Trees" and "Body Parts" |
| 50% | PREDICT | 7 | Say what will happen in the future |
| 50% | SINE | 4 | What the S of "sohcahtoa" stands for |
| 50% | TOES | 4 | What's in the five longest answers |
| 49% | STEAM | 5 | What's in the air in a sauna |
| 49% | TON | 3 | What the world's heaviest ever pumpkin, grown in Belgium in 2016, weighed far in excess of |