| 100% | LAST | 4 | " … and the ___ shall be first": Matthew |
| 62% | SONS | 4 | The first were Cain and Abel |
| 61% | THELAST | 7 | What shall be first ... or words that can precede 17-, 23-, 52- and 60-Across |
| 60% | SONS | 4 | Cain and Abel were the first |
| 60% | WAR | 3 | The first recorded one was between Sumer and Edam |
| 58% | ASK | 3 | "___, and it shall be given you": Matthew 7:7 |
| 56% | TABLE | 5 | "Under the ___ and Dreaming" (Dave Matthews Band's first studio album) |
| 56% | FERRARI | 7 | The first car he fully designed and built was the Auto Avio Costruzioni 815 |
| 56% | STEVIENICKS | 11 | First woman to be inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 55% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 55% | CAT | 3 | "The ___ and the Fiddle," nursery rhyme that may be one of the first poems you learned |
| 55% | HERBGARDEN | 10 | Where the first words of 17-, 26- and 47-Across may be found |
| 54% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | His "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard |
| 54% | SMORE | 5 | The first recipe for one was published in "Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts" (1927) |
| 54% | ENVY | 4 | "Three be the things I shall never attain: / ___, content, and sufficient champagne" — Dorothy Parker |
| 54% | SHE | 3 | Pronoun that can be spelled with a slash between the first and second letters |
| 54% | SCOTS | 5 | Language in which the first four cardinal numbers are ane, twa, three and fower |
| 54% | SUEDE | 5 | "Blue ___ Shoes" (1956 song that was one of the first rock and roll records) |
| 54% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 54% | YAHOO | 5 | Its first name was Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web |
| 53% | MAGI | 4 | The —, sages in the Gospel of Matthew who visited Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born |
| 53% | WOODROWWILSON | 13 | The 28th US President and leader of the progressive movement was the first attend a world series |
| 53% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 53% | RINGLEADER | 10 | Mastermind, and what the first word of 16-, 23-, 35-, or 45-Across can be |
| 53% | OAHU | 4 | Hawaiian island that is home to Honolulu and was the setting for "50 First Dates" |
| 53% | TWEEZERS | 8 | Tool whose name is a rock band if you remove the first and last letters |
| 53% | TRE | 3 | Italian number whose letters are the first, third and fifth letters of its English equivalent |
| 52% | DANIEL | 6 | First name for both, actor Day-Lewis and his character Plainview from the movie "There Will Be Blood" |
| 52% | ONTHELINE | 9 | In jeopardy ... and where the first words of the answers to starred clues can be found |
| 52% | FLATFINISH | 10 | Paint choice ... and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can literally be |