| 100% | EVER | 4 | What ___ Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 93% | EVER | 4 | 1962 movie What __ Happened to Baby Jane? |
| 81% | BETTE | 5 | Davis of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" |
| 80% | BETTE | 5 | Joan's "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" co-star |
| 79% | BETTE | 5 | Actress Davis of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" |
| 71% | JOANCRAWFORD | 12 | "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" Oscar nominee who presented the Oscar statuette to 25-Across at the 35th Academy Awards (2 wds.) |
| 69% | BOUNDS | 6 | What happens to a baby wallaby on Leap Day? "He grows by leaps and ___" |
| 68% | JOANCRAWFORD | 12 | Bette Davis’s costar in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?," who was born Lucille Fay LeSueur: 2 wds. |
| 60% | REPEATS | 7 | What happens to history over time |
| 58% | MELTED | 6 | What happened to Elphaba when water touched her |
| 58% | RUST | 4 | What happens to metal after exposed to water |
| 57% | BUONO | 5 | Victor —, Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar nominee for What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? |
| 57% | RAMIREZ | 7 | 2023 Jiménez novel, What Happened to Ruthy __ |
| 56% | COLLAPSED | 9 | Fell apart, what happened to SVB in 2023 |
| 54% | THE | 3 | There are many ___ories about what happened to the dinosaurs |
| 54% | DIVORCE | 7 | What happens when a marriage has to end |
| 53% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 53% | GIULIANI | 8 | Subject of the series subtitled What Happened to America's Mayor? |
| 53% | PASSERBY | 8 | One who happened to see what happened |
| 53% | SYNC | 4 | What happens when an iPad connects to a computer |
| 53% | DEMOLISHED | 10 | What happened to the Riviera, opened by Liberace in Vegas in 1955, in 2015 |
| 53% | FATE | 4 | What is destined to happen |
| 52% | LIFE | 4 | What happens to you while you're busy making other plans, per "Beautiful Boy" |
| 51% | CLEFT | 5 | Crevice, and, interpreted differently, what happened to five of this puzzle's answers |
| 51% | ASATEST | 7 | To see what happens |
| 51% | BIB | 3 | What a baby wears to catch spills |
| 50% | DONTQUOTEMEONTHIS | 17 | Mrs. B you'll die when you hear what happened to "me" this summer! |
| 50% | CHANGEOFSEASONS | 15 | What happens tomorrow ... and a hint to this grid's circled letters |
| 50% | NAMED | 5 | Decided what to call a baby? |
| 49% | PREDICTS | 8 | Foretells what is going to happen |