| 100% | NEWS | 4 | What's going on in the world |
| 81% | NEWS | 4 | What's going on around the world |
| 72% | NEWS | 4 | Updates of what's going on around the world |
| 61% | KNOWS | 5 | "Who ___ what's going on in there?" |
| 57% | NEWS | 4 | What's happening in the world |
| 55% | ASH | 3 | What's left in a fireplace after the fire goes out |
| 54% | ART | 3 | What's on display in the Guggenheim Museum |
| 53% | STAMP | 5 | "I can go all around the world by staying in one corner. What am I?" |
| 52% | GEARSHIFT | 9 | Auto part, and a clue to what's going on in five rows of this puzzle |
| 52% | LEI | 3 | What goes around in the Pacific? |
| 52% | CURRENTEVENTS | 13 | What's going on |
| 52% | DOINGS | 6 | What's going on |
| 52% | NEWS | 4 | What's going on |
| 52% | EVENT | 5 | What's going on |
| 52% | ATTIRE | 6 | What's going on? |
| 51% | LOOK | 4 | ___ the other way (ignore what's going on) |
| 51% | SKI | 3 | One going on foot in the mountains? |
| 50% | BACKPACK | 8 | Travel the world with one bag, and what can be found in this puzzle's circled letters? |
| 50% | WKRP | 4 | Station that went on the air in 1978 |
| 50% | ARTSCENE | 8 | What's going on at galleries |
| 50% | OTC | 3 | What ibuprofen went in the '80s |
| 50% | CARRIAGE | 8 | What Cinderella went to the ball in |
| 49% | SEALED | 6 | What the Go-Go's lips are in a 1981 song |
| 49% | TON | 3 | What the world's heaviest ever pumpkin, grown in Belgium in 2016, weighed far in excess of |
| 49% | CHOPPEDLIVER | 12 | What's found on some canapés (and hiding in the answers to 20-, 31-, 38- and 49-Across?) |
| 49% | ROAM | 4 | What buffalo do in "Home on the Range" |
| 49% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S in USSR stood for |
| 49% | MASSEXTINCTION | 14 | Effect on the world's life forms caused, in part, by climate change |
| 48% | CYCLE | 5 | (5/5) Go on a bike ride in the open countryside |
| 48% | JANE | 4 | I am considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees and was named a UN Messenger of Peace in 2002 |