| 100% | AGAMEMNON | 9 | First of the three plays In Aeschylus' Oresteia |
| 54% | ZACHARYGORDON | 13 | Child actor who played 40-Across in the first three "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" films (2 wds.) |
| 51% | ARENAFOOTBALL | 13 | Sport played in the first word of its name |
| 50% | STRAW | 5 | Makeup of the first house in "The Three Little Pigs" |
| 50% | BLEU | 4 | The first of three in the French Tricolour |
| 50% | TOY | 3 | First word in the titles of three Pixar movies |
| 49% | EEL | 3 | Fish hidden in the first three letters of "electricity" |
| 47% | HOPPER | 6 | Scientist and naval officer Grace ___ who was one of the first three pioneers in computer programming |
| 47% | RON | 3 | First name of the character played by Rupert Grint in the Harry Potter movies |
| 47% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 46% | READING | 7 | First of the educational three Rs |
| 46% | TED | 3 | Danson who played one of the three men in "Three Men and a Baby" |
| 46% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 45% | GEM | 3 | "___ of the Ocean" (first play in August Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle") |
| 45% | WHO | 3 | First of the five W's, in journalism |
| 45% | TWO | 3 | First of the “magic numbers” in physics |
| 44% | RYAN | 4 | Meg who played each of the three female leads in "Joe Versus the Volcano" |
| 44% | PALEOGENE | 9 | The first of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era |
| 44% | CANCER | 6 | One of the three water signs, in astrology |
| 44% | MODE | 4 | One of the three “M”s in statistics |
| 44% | OUTS | 4 | The three in a triple play |
| 44% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 44% | SAYONARA | 8 | Song played in the first and last episodes of "M*A*S*H" that's also called the "Japanese 32-Across Song" |
| 43% | FELICITY | 8 | With 55-Across, English actress who plays the first wife of 35-Across in "The Theory of Everything" |
| 43% | LEO | 3 | One of the three fire signs in the zodiac |
| 43% | EAR | 3 | Site of the three smallest bones in the body |
| 43% | CAPILLARY | 9 | Smallest of the three blood vessels in the body |
| 43% | MATTHEW | 7 | First of the four Gospels in the New Testament |
| 43% | HANDYNASTY | 10 | Preceder of the Three Kingdoms, in Chinese history |
| 43% | ACTI | 4 | First of five in a Shakespeare play |