| 100% | CLOVIS | 6 | First king of the Franks (A.D. 481) |
| 72% | CLOVIS | 6 | First king of the Franks |
| 57% | EGBERT | 6 | First king of the English |
| 57% | ALARIC | 6 | First king of the Visigoths |
| 53% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel, in the Bible |
| 52% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel in the Old Testament |
| 52% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel, according to the Bible |
| 52% | HENRYII | 7 | First king of England of the House of Plantagenet |
| 52% | RICHARD | 7 | First King of England to go on a Crusade |
| 51% | III | 3 | George __, first king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| 51% | BABAR | 5 | King of the elephants in a children's book series |
| 51% | LION | 4 | King of the jungle ... or with 25d, a digging insect |
| 49% | QUOD | 4 | First third of the end of a proof |
| 49% | YUL | 3 | First name of The King and I actor Brynner |
| 48% | REGICIDE | 8 | The murder of a king |
| 48% | HARPER | 6 | First name of the author of To Kill a Mockingbird |
| 48% | SOLOMON | 7 | First name of the author of “Twelve Years a Slave” |
| 48% | PAT | 3 | First name of the singer of Love is a Battlefield |
| 48% | ELIE | 4 | First name of the author of A Journey Into Faith |
| 48% | MONA | 4 | First name of the woman in a famously mysterious portrait |
| 48% | SIT | 3 | One of the first commands a puppy learns |
| 48% | SOL | 3 | A, in the key of D |
| 47% | MARIE | 5 | First name of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 47% | ENERO | 5 | First month of the year, to many a 5-Down character |
| 47% | SOLOMON | 7 | Last king of a united Israel, in the Bible |
| 47% | YEA | 3 | One of the first to raise a hand, usually |
| 47% | JONASSALK | 9 | One of the first to develop a polio vaccination |
| 47% | TIS | 3 | First word of a Frank McCourt title |
| 47% | ALAN | 4 | The first "A" of A. A. Milne |
| 47% | PRINCE | 6 | The son of a sovereign or king |