| 100% | TEXAVERY | 8 | Director of “A Wild Hare,” the first Bugs Bunny cartoon |
| 56% | AVERY | 5 | Tex who directed the first Bugs Bunny cartoon |
| 41% | PREMIERE | 8 | The first showing of a movie |
| 41% | PRINCEPS | 8 | The first printing of a book |
| 41% | LOON | 4 | Bugs Bunny is a ___ey Tunes cartoon |
| 41% | JOHNCARPENTER | 13 | Director of the first "Halloween": 2 wds. |
| 41% | CHRISCOLUMBUS | 13 | Director of the first two Potter films |
| 41% | ALAN | 4 | The first "A" of A. A. Milne |
| 41% | OUTBOUND | 8 | The first leg of a return journey |
| 41% | HARE | 4 | "A Wild ___" (cartoon in which Bugs Bunny first says "What's up, Doc?") |
| 40% | ASIAN | 5 | The first "A" of A.A.P.I. |
| 40% | ASIAN | 5 | The first “A” of A.A.P.I. |
| 40% | STEPONE | 7 | The first instruction in a list of instructions |
| 40% | DOC | 3 | "Recipient" of a Bugs Bunny question |
| 40% | WILLIAMAWELLMAN | 15 | Director of “Wings,” the first Best Picture winner [1896] |
| 40% | MILKTEETH | 9 | The first set of gnashers of a young mammal |
| 40% | FROGSPAWN | 9 | The first stage of a tadpole's life cycle |
| 40% | INCIPIT | 7 | The first few identifying words of a written text |
| 40% | ACROSTIC | 8 | The first letter of each line spells a word |
| 40% | ELMER | 5 | Fudd of Bugs Bunny cartoons |
| 40% | SOUP | 4 | Often the first course of a meal |
| 40% | SWAM | 4 | Did the first leg of a triathlon |
| 40% | SWIM | 4 | Do the first leg of a triathlon |
| 40% | OPENS | 5 | Is the first act of a concert |
| 40% | SWAM | 4 | Did the first stage of a triathlon |
| 39% | WAGNERIAN | 9 | Like the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?” |
| 39% | ONCE | 4 | The first word of a fairy tale, ___ upon a time |
| 39% | PAWN | 4 | The first piece usually moved in a game of chess |
| 39% | COLOSTRUM | 9 | The first drops of breastmilk after a baby's birth |
| 39% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |