| 100% | OSCARS | 6 | Event first televised in 1953, with "the" |
| 53% | SEANCE | 6 | Event for getting in touch with the dead |
| 51% | GEHRIG | 6 | Player with the first retired number in baseball |
| 51% | AIRSHOW | 7 | Event with acrobatics in the sky |
| 51% | KAYAK | 5 | Canoe designated with the letter K in Olympic events |
| 50% | TONY | 4 | ___ Awards, Broadway awards with the first edition held in 1947 |
| 49% | NSYNC | 5 | Band with the highest first-week album sales in music history |
| 49% | KAYAK | 5 | Canoe-like boat designated with the letter K in Olympic events |
| 49% | FINLAND | 7 | First country in the world with universal suffrage (1906) |
| 49% | ASHLEY | 6 | Scarlett's first love in "Gone With the Wind" |
| 48% | THEROBE | 7 | 1953 Biblical epic that was the first film released in CinemaScope |
| 47% | ROBE | 4 | First film in CinemaScope, with "The" |
| 47% | UFC | 3 | Mixed martial arts organization with events in the Octagon (Abbr.) |
| 46% | CAITLINCLARK | 12 | Iowa point guard taken with the first pick in the 2024 WNBA draft: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ASCENSION | 9 | Event in Luke, with "the" |
| 46% | THOMAS | 6 | With 65 Across, the first to see his name ''up in lights'' (1881) |
| 46% | HENGIST | 7 | Leader, with brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain |
| 45% | LEO | 3 | First to speak in ''Gone With the Wind'' |
| 45% | NCAR | 4 | State with the motto "First in Flight": Abbr. |
| 45% | END | 3 | Event studied in eschatology, with "the" |
| 45% | IPO | 3 | Event in which a company first allows the general public to buy its stock: Abbr. |
| 45% | KLING | 5 | With 19-Across, its high council meets in the Great Hall of the First City |
| 45% | MARIO | 5 | First video game character to be honored with a figure in the Hollywood Wax Museum |
| 45% | NAOMI | 5 | With 37-Across, first Japanese tennis player to be ranked No. 1 in the world |
| 45% | EBB | 3 | With 15-Across, 1953 song that was a hit for the Righteous Brothers in 1965 |
| 45% | HENGIST | 7 | Leader, along with his brother Horsa, of the first Jutish settlers in Britain |
| 44% | WEEK | 4 | National Dance ___, annual dance event started in 1981 in the US with nationwide events |
| 44% | ALABAMA | 7 | "Love in the First Degree" country-rock band with a state for a name |
| 44% | WINNIE | 6 | ___ Harlow, first model with vitiligo to walk in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show |
| 43% | BUDGENS | 7 | Supermarket with its first stores in the south |