| 100% | DEMOLISHED | 10 | What happened to the Riviera, opened by Liberace in Vegas in 1955, in 2015 |
| 41% | RIDESHARING | 11 | Service offered by 18-Down, and what's happening in the answers to the starred clues |
| 39% | SUBCONTRACTED | 13 | Outsourced, and what happened to the circled letters in this puzzle |
| 39% | FORESIGHT | 9 | The ability to predict what happens in the future |
| 37% | TAN | 3 | What you hope to get by laying in the sun |
| 34% | FORESIGHT | 9 | Ability to predict what will happen in the future |
| 34% | ANYMOMENT | 9 | "It's about to happen" ... or what each of the four other longest answers in this puzzle has? |
| 34% | MILKSHAKES | 10 | Diner treats ... or a hint to what's happening to the words in the circled squares in this puzzle? |
| 33% | GRANDSLAMHOMERUN | 16 | What will cause a walk-off win in the situation described by the answers to the starred clues |
| 33% | STOCKEXCHANGE | 13 | Wall Street site, and what happened in order to form the answers to the starred clues? |
| 33% | REDLIGHT | 8 | What Roxanne didn't have to put on, in a song by The Police |
| 33% | STAMP | 5 | Elvis Presley Forever ___, tribute to Elvis Presley that was released by the U.S. Postal Service in 2015 |
| 32% | THE | 3 | There are many ___ories about what happened to the dinosaurs |
| 32% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 31% | SHIPSHAPE | 9 | In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters |
| 31% | COLLAPSED | 9 | Fell apart, what happened to SVB in 2023 |
| 31% | STOLEN | 6 | This happened to the Mona Lisa in 1911 |
| 31% | ISAO | 4 | Pro golfer Aoki who lost to Jack Nicklaus by two strokes in the 1980 U.S. Open |
| 31% | COMICSTRIPS | 11 | What happens in the stand-up show at the nudist club? |
| 31% | ILOSTIT | 7 | What happened "at the Movies" in a 1965 Pauline Kael title |
| 31% | TAILINGOFF | 10 | Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle |
| 31% | CARRIAGE | 8 | What Cinderella went to the ball in |
| 31% | ERA | 3 | Open ___ (1968 to the present, in tennis) |
| 31% | FALLLEAVES | 10 | Autumn foliage ... or what happens at the starts of eight answers in this puzzle? |
| 30% | UPSET | 5 | What many consider the Mets beating the Orioles in '69 to be |
| 30% | GRILLPAN | 8 | Try to uncover the truth of what happened to Hook? |
| 30% | FOOTBRIDGE | 10 | Stream crossing for pedestrians ... and what is literally provided by the interior letters in the answers to starred clues |
| 30% | GIULIANI | 8 | Subject of the series subtitled What Happened to America's Mayor? |
| 30% | BOND | 4 | What the answers to the starred clues share, in two ways |
| 30% | MANGER | 6 | Play by Lope de Vega: "The Dog in the __" |