| 100% | DALE | 4 | "Over" follower in the first line of "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" |
| 47% | AGO | 3 | Adverb in the first line of the Gettysburg Address |
| 46% | SEE | 3 | Word in the first line of the U.S. national anthem |
| 45% | WINTER | 6 | Season mentioned in the first line of Richard III |
| 45% | BOAC | 4 | Airline mentioned in the first line of the Beatles' "Back in the 52-Across" |
| 44% | ROAM | 4 | Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range" |
| 44% | BOAC | 4 | Airline mentioned in the first line of the Beatles' "Back in the U.S.S.R." |
| 44% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 43% | SON | 3 | Follower in the line of succession, sometimes |
| 43% | ABBA | 4 | The first band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alphabetically |
| 43% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine described in the first lines of her novel as "handsome, clever and rich" |
| 42% | NAME | 4 | Info to fill in on the first line of many forms |
| 42% | MOOCOW | 6 | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| 40% | HEYDIDDLEDIDDLE | 15 | First line of a nursery rhyme about the cow that jumped over the moon |
| 40% | ABBA | 4 | First group alphabetically in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 39% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 39% | TWENTIETHCENTURY | 16 | One of the first Buicks to roll off the line? |
| 39% | ABBA | 4 | Alphabetically first group in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
| 39% | ABBA | 4 | Alphabetically first inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 39% | ABBA | 4 | Alphabetically first group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 39% | ABBA | 4 | Alphabetically first band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 38% | EDEN | 4 | Paradise in the first book of the Bible |
| 38% | ICARUS | 6 | Spaceship in the first Planet of the Apes |
| 38% | ACHY | 4 | First word in the title of the Billy Ray Cyrus song that popularized line dancing |
| 38% | RAP | 3 | Genre first included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007 |
| 38% | HAMLET | 6 | Source of the line "Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go" |
| 38% | HENGIST | 7 | Leader, along with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain |
| 37% | SYNE | 4 | Last word in the first song of the year |
| 37% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | The first line of Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 37% | ENYA | 4 | Singer heard in the first "Lord of the Rings" movie |