| 100% | ABEL | 4 | His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts |
| 39% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | The first part of his ''Ulysses'' was published in 1918 |
| 37% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 34% | POE | 3 | Author of the first detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" |
| 33% | MONDAY | 6 | The first day of Lent in Greece: Clean __ |
| 33% | TSE | 3 | The first letter of "tsar," in Cyrillic |
| 33% | ADAM | 4 | The first prophet of God, in Islam |
| 33% | ABEL | 4 | The first murder victim, in Christianity |
| 32% | ABEL | 4 | The first murder victim in the Bible |
| 32% | THRENODY | 8 | Poem or song of mourning or lamentation such as that written by Ralph Waldo Emerson on the death of his son in 1842 |
| 32% | BLEU | 4 | The first of three in the French Tricolour |
| 32% | STEPONE | 7 | The first instruction in a list of instructions |
| 32% | CAN | 3 | Warhol painted one of these 32 times for his first one-man gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery in 1962 |
| 32% | DUPIN | 5 | C Auguste —, detective creation of Edgar Allan Poe who first appeared in 1841’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| 32% | DUPIN | 5 | C Auguste —, detective creation of Edgar Allan Poe who first appeared in 1841's The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| 31% | LEO | 3 | The first voice heard in ''The Wizard of Oz'' |
| 31% | TNT | 3 | Airer of "Murder in the First": Abbr. |
| 31% | ISNT | 4 | First word of "Send in the Clowns" |
| 31% | SPIROAGNEW | 10 | His resignation triggered the first invocation of the 25th Amendment |
| 31% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
| 31% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 31% | CASTSON | 7 | Makes the first row of stitches in knitting |
| 31% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel in the Old Testament |
| 31% | LEAH | 4 | First wife of Jacob in the Old Testament |
| 31% | MARCH | 5 | First month of Fall in the Southern Hemisphere |
| 31% | HAN | 3 | First name of Solo in the movie "Solo" |
| 31% | HOW | 3 | First word of "Blowin' in the Wind" |
| 31% | SAUL | 4 | First king of Israel, in the Bible |
| 31% | MUHARRAM | 8 | First month of the Islamic calendar |