| 100% | NAT | 3 | ___ "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first Black players to play in the NBA |
| 52% | KLAYTHOMPSON | 12 | Warriors guard who's the first player in NBA history to score 60 points in under 30 minutes of play: 2 wds. |
| 50% | LLOYD | 5 | Earl ___, first African American to play in the NBA |
| 50% | MCGEE | 5 | Pamela ___, first WNBA player to have children play in the NBA and the WNBA |
| 50% | CHUCKCONNORS | 12 | Actor who was one of only 13 athletes to play in both the NBA and the MLB (2 wds.) |
| 49% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 49% | BRYANT | 6 | Kobe ___, former Los Angeles Lakers player who was the first guard to play 20 seasons in NBA |
| 48% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | ORR | 3 | He was the first hockey player to have 100 assists in one season |
| 45% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 44% | HOWARD | 6 | Dwight ___, basketballer who is one of the players with the most rebounds in NBA history |
| 44% | IDA | 3 | ___ B. Wells, civil-rights leader who founded one of the first Black women’s suffrage groups in the U.S. |
| 44% | KARL | 4 | ___ Malone, former basketballer who is one of the players with the most rebounds in NBA history |
| 44% | BILL | 4 | ___ Russell, former basketballer who is one of the players with the most rebounds in NBA history |
| 43% | TITLE | 5 | With 66-Across, images played in silent films, and what one might use to play the games in the first parts of the answers to the starred clues? |
| 43% | YANK | 4 | One of the players on the winning team that played the Braves in the '58 World Series |
| 43% | MANON | 5 | ___ Rheaume, first woman to play in any of the major North American pro-sports leagues |
| 43% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 42% | BANDIT | 6 | One of the pro box lacrosse players who plays out of the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York |
| 42% | GASOL | 5 | One of only three non-American NBA players to win Rookie of the Year |
| 42% | ISAIAH | 6 | ___ Thomas, Washington Wizards player who is one of the shortest players in NBA history at 5ft. 9in |
| 41% | EARL | 4 | ___ Boykins, former Denver Nuggets player who is one of the shortest players in NBA history at 5ft. 5in |
| 41% | CALVIN | 6 | ___ Murphy, former Houston Rockets player who is one of the shortest players in NBA history at 5ft. 9in |
| 41% | BILLRUSSELL | 11 | 2021 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first Black head coach in the NBA (2 wds.) |
| 41% | JAMES | 5 | LeBron ___, LA Lakers basketball player and 2004 NBA "Rookie of the Year" who also played football in school |
| 41% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Iverson, former basketball player and 1997 NBA "Rookie of the Year" who also played football in high school |
| 41% | WILL | 4 | I was one of the men in "Men in Black" and I'm also father to two singers |
| 41% | ROME | 4 | First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. |
| 41% | WASHINGTON | 10 | One of the first two states to permit marijuana for recreational use |
| 41% | COLORADO | 8 | One of the first two states to permit marijuana for recreational use |