| 100% | SETI | 4 | Institute hoping to be involved in first contact |
| 47% | ISNT | 4 | Fails to be involved in |
| 46% | IMPLICATE | 9 | Show to be involved in a crime |
| 45% | USUALSUSPECT | 12 | Person likely to be involved in a particular situation |
| 42% | ADJOIN | 6 | To be in close contact with, affixed |
| 41% | OPT | 3 | Decide to be involved (in) |
| 40% | KIN | 3 | Next of ___ (relative to be contacted in an emergency) |
| 39% | AARON | 5 | Last name likely to be first in a roll call |
| 39% | NAME | 4 | First line to be filled in on many forms |
| 37% | RODRIGUEZ | 9 | Yankees player Alex, who was involved in Baseball's first instant replay review, on the day of Halloween |
| 37% | PARTICIPATE | 11 | Be involved in |
| 37% | MARATSA{FIN} | 12 | First Russian to be inducted in the International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| 37% | ALEKSEI | 7 | Leonov who was the first man to walk in space |
| 37% | ODESSA | 6 | City that was home to the first car in Russia |
| 36% | HASASAY | 7 | Is involved in decision-making |
| 36% | GETCAUGHT | 9 | Are involved in unexpected unpleasantness |
| 36% | TAKESPART | 9 | Is involved in: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ONBASE | 6 | Hoping to be brought home |
| 36% | TOBEY | 5 | Actor Maguire who was the first to play Spider-Man in movies |
| 36% | RADIO | 5 | It was used to play music for the first time in 1906 |
| 35% | IMPLICATED | 10 | Shown to be involved |
| 35% | NEIL | 4 | First name in NASA's prestigious list of astronauts who have been to the moon |
| 35% | HAYES | 5 | First president to have a phone in the White House—its number was "1" (1877) |
| 35% | ROSA | 4 | Parks who was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol |
| 35% | MADAMSPEAKER | 12 | *Nancy Pelosi was the first person ever to have this title in Congress |
| 35% | LAIKA | 5 | Dog who became the first living being to orbit the Earth in 1957 |
| 35% | PALM | 4 | Co. that was the first to successfully market a PDA worldwide in 1997 |
| 35% | ORR | 3 | He was the first hockey player to have 100 assists in one season |
| 35% | SUNILEE | 7 | Gymnast who was the first Hmong American athlete to compete in the Olympics |
| 35% | PGA | 3 | Babe Zaharias was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief |