| 100% | PALMEDOR | 8 | Cannes prize so far awarded only once to a woman (Jane Campion, “The Piano”) |
| 30% | CURIE | 5 | Surname of the first woman to win a Nobel prize |
| 30% | BERTHA | 6 | ___ von Suttner, first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 30% | MARIE | 5 | First name of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 29% | EDITH | 5 | Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| 29% | DESADE | 6 | He wrote "The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment" |
| 29% | JANEADDAMS | 10 | First American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1931: 2 wds. |
| 29% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 29% | MARIE | 5 | ___ Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist, and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 28% | MAUS | 4 | Only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (awarded 1992) |
| 27% | CORI | 4 | Gerty Theresa ___, biochemist who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 27% | JESMYNWARD | 10 | Mississippi novelist who is the only woman to win the National Book Award for Fiction twice (2 wds.) |
| 27% | ELOISE | 6 | Popular 1986 song to a woman by The Damned |
| 27% | YENTL | 5 | 1983 movie for which Barbra Streisand became the only woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director |
| 27% | USEOFTWOHANDSANDANOSE | 21 | Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... |
| 27% | GRAPHICNOVEL | 12 | "Maus" is the only one to win a Pulitzer Prize (1992) |
| 27% | BRIDAL | 6 | Referring to a woman in the context of her wedding |
| 26% | LILLIANGISH | 11 | "The Birth of a Nation" star who is the only silent era actor to win the AFI Life Achievement Award: 2 wds. |
| 26% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | "Beloved" author who died August 5, and who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize: 2 wds. |
| 26% | PAQUIN | 6 | Anna __, child star of Jane Campion's The Piano |
| 26% | ENOS | 4 | First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth |
| 26% | MEDALINAFFAIRS | 14 | Prize awarded to the best party planner? |
| 26% | CURIE | 5 | Only woman to win two Nobel Prizes |
| 26% | KENNEDY | 7 | Only president to win a Pulitzer Prize |
| 26% | WREN | 4 | Once a woman in the Royal Navy |
| 26% | JANETJACKSON | 12 | "Rhythm Nation" R&B singer who received the 1990 MTV Video Vanguard Award, the first African American woman to do so: 2 wds. |
| 26% | ROCKANDROLL | 11 | With 60-Across, institution in which 19-, 25- and 37-Across are (thus far) the only three women ever to be inducted twice |
| 25% | MAUS | 4 | Only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize |
| 25% | ODDER | 5 | Further off the beaten path, so to speak |
| 25% | PLAYLISZT | 9 | Command to a Hungarian composer at the piano? |