| 100% | SCOOPS | 6 | Airs a news item first |
| 56% | SCOOP | 5 | A news story reported first |
| 54% | TRENDING | 8 | Hot, as a news item |
| 52% | OBIT | 4 | News item for a scrapbook |
| 52% | OBIT | 4 | News item with a bio |
| 50% | UPDATE | 6 | A new version, new information, latest items |
| 48% | JUSTARRIVED | 11 | Label for new items in a store |
| 47% | GAUZE | 5 | Item in a first aid kit |
| 47% | SPLINT | 6 | First-aid item for a fracture |
| 46% | UPCYCLING | 9 | Giving a new lease of life to old items |
| 46% | WAND | 4 | Item a magician waves in the air |
| 46% | OBIT | 4 | News item that often has a person's age in the headline |
| 45% | TRAY | 4 | First item to pick up at a cafeteria |
| 45% | RHODE | 5 | First word of a state in New England |
| 44% | AULD | 4 | First word of a traditional New Year's Eve song |
| 43% | LEDE | 4 | First sentence of a news story |
| 43% | DEBUT | 5 | First game for a new team |
| 43% | PILOT | 5 | First episode of a new sitcom |
| 43% | IRONMAIDEN | 10 | First heavy metal band to have a video air on MTV |
| 43% | USED | 4 | Not new, like many items at a garage sale |
| 42% | PILOT | 5 | First episode of a new TV show |
| 42% | RACHELMADDOW | 12 | First openly lesbian anchor to host a major prime-time news program |
| 42% | KIT | 3 | A collection of items for a purpose, such as a first-aid ___ |
| 42% | RERUN | 5 | Any airing of a TV episode after the first one |
| 41% | ACTS | 4 | First book of the New Testament that isn't named for a person |
| 41% | ACTS | 4 | First New Testament book title that doesn't contain a man's name |
| 41% | YORK | 4 | New ___, state where Buffalo was the first city to host a Turkey Trot |
| 40% | RECUT | 5 | Like the 1997 Special Edition of “Star Wars: A New Hope,” in which Greedo shoots first |
| 40% | DAY | 3 | First ___ of school, new chapter with school bells and classroom adventures for a child |
| 40% | CONTRABANDAGE | 13 | Item in a smuggler's first-aid kit? |