| 100% | RESPONDER | 9 | First __, initial person first at an emergency |
| 56% | AMBULANCEDRIVER | 15 | Person at the wheel of an emergency vehicle |
| 47% | COTS | 4 | Items at an emergency shelter |
| 46% | CONDUCTOR | 9 | This person waves at an orchestra |
| 44% | BIDDERS | 7 | People making offers at an auction |
| 43% | AMB | 3 | Person who works at an embassy (Abbr.) |
| 43% | EMTS | 4 | First responders at an accident scene: Abbr. |
| 43% | CEO | 3 | Person at an organizational chart's peak: Abbr. |
| 42% | TURNOUT | 7 | Number of people at an event |
| 42% | ETA | 3 | When to meet a person landing at an airport, approximately: Abbr. |
| 42% | PROTESTER | 9 | Person carrying a sign at an antiwar rally, say |
| 42% | TEQUILASUNRISE | 14 | First showing at an all-day film festival? (1988) |
| 41% | ROBINSON | 8 | At first, __ Crusoe was alone on an island |
| 41% | UMP | 3 | Person who's critical at first |
| 40% | WHO | 3 | Person "on first" in an Abbott and Costello routine |
| 40% | WALDORF | 7 | Salad first created at an NYC hotel in 1896 |
| 40% | LIFEBOAT | 8 | Emergency vessel that saves people at sea |
| 40% | NMN | 3 | Initials found on an ID, at times |
| 40% | SNAPDECISION | 12 | What a person in an emergency might have to make |
| 39% | EDITION | 7 | First __; book copy from an initial print run |
| 39% | MONTHS | 6 | An average person spends 6 __ at red lights |
| 39% | OGLE | 4 | Stare at, like an attractive person |
| 39% | SIDNEY | 6 | Actor and director Poitier, the first black person to win an Oscar for best actor |
| 38% | GAWK | 4 | People often do this at the scene of an accident |
| 37% | AID | 3 | First ___ kit, emergency treatment kit that is an essential on a road trip |
| 37% | OBAMA | 5 | Former First Lady Michelle who planted an organic garden at the White House |
| 37% | SEWS | 4 | What the Surgical First Assistant usually does at the end of an operation |
| 37% | KISSCAM | 7 | What sends people to first base at a game? |
| 37% | STAT | 4 | "At once!" in an emergency room |
| 37% | CHARITY | 7 | "___ begins at home," idiom that suggests you should first help people close to you |