| 100% | STARWARS | 8 | First film to surpass the box-office record of “Jaws” |
| 44% | RETTON | 6 | First woman to appear on the front of a Wheaties box |
| 44% | SPIRO | 5 | First name of the second vice president to resign from office |
| 44% | BAEZ | 4 | One of the first to record Dylan's songs |
| 43% | LEADINGLADY | 11 | Female box office star, and what the starts of the answers to starred clues can have |
| 43% | EBERT | 5 | The first film critic to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 42% | THISISLANDEARTH | 15 | 1955 sci-fi film that was one of the first to use Technicolor |
| 41% | AVATAR | 6 | First movie to top "Titanic" at the box office |
| 41% | AHN | 3 | Philip ___, first Asian-American film actor to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 40% | LINCOLN | 7 | Abraham ___, 16th President of the U.S.A. and the first to sport a beard in office |
| 40% | TITANIC | 7 | The first film to reach the billion-dollar mark |
| 40% | CAPRA | 5 | Director of the first film to win all five top Oscars (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay) |
| 38% | WONGKARWAI | 10 | “In the Mood for Love” director who controversially reëdited some of his films prior to their Criterion Collection box-set release |
| 38% | EDDINGTON | 9 | First Englishman to prove the Theory of Relativity |
| 37% | ELLA | 4 | The First Lady of Song, to fans |
| 37% | NEWDEAL | 7 | Name given to the domestic policies of US president Franklin D Roosevelt for economic and social reform during his first term of office |
| 37% | HAYES | 5 | First president to visit the West Coast while in office |
| 37% | DENIAL | 6 | The first stage of grief, according to some |
| 37% | VIRGINIA | 8 | First name of To the Lighthouse author Woolf |
| 37% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel, according to the Bible |
| 37% | PELOSI | 6 | First woman to be Speaker of the House |
| 37% | DRNO | 4 | First of the James Bond films: 2 wds. |
| 37% | BLACKPANTHER | 12 | Marvel's 2018 superhero film that became the first film since "Avatar" to top the box office for five consecutive weekends: 2 wds. |
| 37% | DRNO | 4 | Villain of the first Bond film |
| 37% | INSTATE | 7 | Administer the oath of office to |
| 37% | SWEARIN | 7 | Give the oath of office to |
| 36% | ELTON | 5 | First name of the subject of the film "Rocketman" |
| 36% | TYCOBB | 6 | First player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 36% | AMAL | 4 | First name of the lawyer married to George Clooney |
| 36% | EVAPERON | 8 | The first lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952 |