| 100% | STAYUP | 6 | What many children are told not to do on Christmas Eve, but encouraged to do on New Year's Eve |
| 38% | KISS | 4 | What a couple might be encouraged to do on a stadium's Jumbotron |
| 32% | COUNT | 5 | "Down" preceder to mean numerical recitation on New Year's Eve |
| 32% | HOPKINS | 7 | Sir Anthony ___, famed actor who was born on New Year's Eve |
| 32% | BEN | 3 | ___ Kingsley, actor from "Gandhi" who was born on New Year's Eve |
| 32% | VAL | 3 | ___ Kilmer, actor from "Top Gun" who was born on New Year's Eve |
| 31% | STOPAZOMBIE | 11 | What any of the many weapons on "The Walking Dead" is intended to do? |
| 31% | POLKA | 5 | ___ dots, pattern worn on New Year's Eve in the Philippines to welcome prosperity |
| 31% | NONOS | 5 | Things that kids are told not to do: Hyph. |
| 31% | HARM | 4 | What doctors are sworn not to do |
| 31% | ROOMS | 5 | "Four ___," 1995 anthology comedy film starring Tim Roth that is set on New Year's Eve |
| 31% | MONEY | 5 | What is said not to grow on trees |
| 31% | OCEANS | 6 | "___ 11," 1960 thriller film starring Frank Sinatra that is about a heist on New Year's Eve |
| 31% | ERODE | 5 | What the Colorado River will continue to do to the canyon for a few more zillion years |
| 30% | AULD | 4 | "___ Lang Syne," song that's sung on New Year's Eve to bid farewell to the previous year |
| 30% | KINGSLEY | 8 | Actor Ben ___ who played Mahatma Gandhi in the movie "Gandhi" and was born on New Year's Eve |
| 30% | KILMER | 6 | Actor Val ___ who played Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in "Top Gun" and was born on New Year's Eve |
| 30% | ANAGRAM | 7 | What each of today's four long answers is vis-à-vis New Year's Eve |
| 29% | CLEAN | 5 | Christmas is here! What can you do to be on Santa's nice list? (1/3) ___ up after yourself and don't leave a mess |
| 29% | STAYUP | 6 | Make it to midnight on New Year's Eve, say |
| 29% | LESS | 4 | What an overachiever might be encouraged to do |
| 29% | READ | 4 | What many children begin to do in kindergarten |
| 29% | XXXXXXXXXXXX | 12 | What Smithers is known to do on "The Simpsons" |
| 29% | BALLDROP | 8 | New Year's Eve tradition in the Big Apple, and what can be found in 3-, 8-, 33-, and 37-Down? |
| 29% | EVE | 3 | "What Are You Doing New Year's ___?" |
| 29% | JELLY | 5 | "What did the peanut butter say to the grape on Christmas? 'Tis the season to be ___!" |
| 28% | TIMESSQUARE | 11 | *Crowded place on New Year's Eve |
| 28% | CHAMPAGNEFLUTES | 15 | Things clinked on New Year's Eve |
| 28% | TIMES | 5 | ___ Square, landmark in New York City you may want to visit on New Year's Eve |
| 28% | COUNTSDOWN | 10 | Does a New Year's Eve ritual starting with "Ten..." |