| 100% | TWELVE | 6 | With 38-Across, New Year’s start |
| 65% | COUNTSDOWN | 10 | Does a New Year's Eve ritual starting with "Ten..." |
| 55% | NINETEEN | 8 | With 56-Across, The New Yorker’s founding year |
| 55% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (celebration with a countdown) |
| 55% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (night with a countdown) |
| 55% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (celebration with champagne toasts) |
| 55% | DONALD | 6 | With 38-Across, "Scrubs" actor who plays Trey, Julia's new love interest, on 15-Across |
| 54% | EVE | 3 | New Year's ___ (occasion with champagne at midnight) |
| 51% | ERIK | 4 | With 38 Across, French composer |
| 51% | COUNTDOWN | 9 | New Year Eve's finale that starts the next year |
| 51% | ROSEPARADE | 10 | Annual New Year's Day spectacle ... and a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across |
| 51% | AARON | 5 | With 30-Across, New York Yankees slugger who was Time's Athlete of the Year in 2022 |
| 50% | FLANNEL | 7 | With 38 Across, thick-fabric sleepwear |
| 50% | EEL | 3 | With 38 Across, certain sushi filling |
| 50% | ICE | 3 | With 38 Across, cooling-off period |
| 50% | FROM | 4 | With 38 Across, alternate puzzle title |
| 50% | ERS | 3 | Places with 38 Across |
| 49% | ANO | 3 | With 6-Across, New Year, in Spain |
| 48% | SIS | 3 | Female sibling or someone to spend New Year's Eve with, for short |
| 48% | WHEREDIDWEGO | 12 | With 38 Across, 57 Across' lament in 46 Across |
| 48% | TEN | 3 | Start of a New Year's countdown |
| 48% | TEN | 3 | Start of a New Year's countdown! |
| 47% | TEN | 3 | Start of a New Year's Eve countdown! |
| 47% | VOLODYMYR | 9 | With 27 Across, Time's Person of the Year of 2022 |
| 46% | ISSA | 4 | With 38-Across, creator/star of HBO's "Insecure" |
| 46% | TET | 3 | New Year celebrated with bánh chu'ng |
| 46% | TET | 3 | New Year celebrated with thit kho trung |
| 45% | BAD | 3 | With 38-Across, hex that's hard to shake |
| 45% | NEWMOON | 7 | Lunar New Year begins with a __ |
| 45% | OVERTO | 6 | With 49-Across, news anchor’s segue |