| 100% | FOLIO | 5 | First ___ (Shakespeare volume) |
| 72% | BOOKI | 5 | First volume |
| 69% | ATO | 3 | First volume heading starter |
| 69% | FOLIO | 5 | First ___ (seminal Shakespeare anthology) |
| 65% | ATOB | 4 | First volume of an encyclopedia, perhaps |
| 65% | ALLS | 4 | First word in a Shakespeare title |
| 65% | SUSANNA | 7 | Shakespeare's first child, born 1583 |
| 65% | MUCH | 4 | First word in a Shakespeare title |
| 65% | RICHARDII | 9 | First play in Shakespeare’s Henriad |
| 65% | ALLS | 4 | First word of a Shakespeare title |
| 64% | ACTI | 4 | First of five in a Shakespeare play |
| 62% | TOMES | 5 | Shakespeare's First and Second Folios, e.g. |
| 62% | ANTONIO | 7 | First name of Shakespeare's merchant of Venice |
| 62% | TOMES | 5 | Shakespeare's First and Second Folios, for example |
| 61% | TITUS | 5 | Protagonist of Shakespeare's first tragedy |
| 60% | WILLIAM | 7 | The first name of Shakespeare and Shatner |
| 60% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | The first line of Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 59% | JOHN | 4 | "King ___," silent film which was the first Shakespeare play adapted for film |
| 59% | FOLIO | 5 | First ___ (Shakespeare collection) |
| 58% | JONSON | 6 | Shakespeare contemporary who contributed prefatory verses to the First Folio |
| 56% | MANOFLETTER | 11 | One who's read an encyclopedia's first volume? |
| 55% | JUSTINE | 7 | 1957 Lawrence Durrell novel: first volume of The Alexandria Quartet |
| 50% | BOOKI | 5 | First in a multi-volume series |
| 49% | THETAMINGOF | 11 | & 12A William Shakespeare play featuring the character Christopher Sly first printed in 1623 |
| 49% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 49% | ASYOULIKEIT | 11 | William Shakespeare play first published in 1623 featuring the characters Celia and Rosalind |
| 48% | VERONA | 6 | Shakespeare's "first" play: Two Gentlemen of __ |
| 47% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 46% | TIGGER | 6 | Bouncy A A Milne creation first introduced in 1928 volume The House at Pooh Corner |