| 100% | IOWA | 4 | In 1869, this state admitted the first female lawyer, Arabella Mansfield, to the bar |
| 36% | DEL | 3 | First state admitted to the US: Abbr. |
| 36% | SEVENTH | 7 | Like Maryland, in order of states admitted to the Union |
| 36% | HEAD | 4 | The first blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 35% | SPORTSCENTER | 12 | Ronda Rousey was the first female athlete to guest-host this ESPN show |
| 35% | TOBACCO | 7 | Rolfe was the first to cultivate this in Virginia |
| 34% | THEOTHERAMERICA | 15 | Read the first letter in each clue to get a quote from this '67 speech |
| 34% | OBERLIN | 7 | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to admit women |
| 34% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 34% | ORANGUTANS | 10 | In 2014 Argentina became the first country to recognize these primates' legal rights |
| 34% | RADIO | 5 | In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be broadcast over this |
| 34% | COLUMBIASC | 10 | This capital is home to the Army's Ft. Jackson in the Palmetto state |
| 33% | MADAMSPEAKER | 12 | *Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress |
| 33% | ORRIN | 5 | First name in the senate from 1977 to earlier this month |
| 33% | NEVADA | 6 | State with the first female-majority legislature |
| 33% | USA | 3 | This nation's athlete is the first figure skater to land eight quads in a competition |
| 32% | ILLINOIS | 8 | Springfield's state which became the first state to decriminalize same-sex relations in 1962 |
| 32% | PUT | 3 | Competitions to do this to the shot were first recorded in early 19th century Scotland |
| 32% | POTTER | 6 | Lorraine, first female chaplain in the US Air Force (1973), later promoted to general (1999) |
| 32% | USN | 3 | JFK was the first president to have served in this branch of the US Armed Forces |
| 32% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 32% | LAPD | 4 | First law enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) |
| 32% | ALABAMA | 7 | Montgomery's state that was the first US state to recognize Christmas as a holiday in 1836 |
| 31% | SLEEP | 5 | According to Nas in "N.Y. State of Mind" this is the cousin of death |
| 31% | JULIEDASH | 9 | First black woman to direct a feature-length film distributed theatrically in the United States |
| 31% | HARRIETQUIMBY | 13 | First woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel (2 wds.) |
| 31% | DISUNION | 8 | State of division, and what the first letters of the states divided across black squares in this puzzle spell out |
| 31% | IOWA | 4 | State with America's first female lawyer |
| 31% | SLANT | 5 | Incline (and a hint to the location in this completed puzzle of the first line of 9- & 59-Across) |
| 31% | BECHDELTEST | 11 | Standard for female representation in film first described in the comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For” |