| 100% | SENEGAL | 7 | Léopold Sédar Senghor, theorist of “Négritude,” was its first President |
| 54% | REPUBLICOFTEXAS | 15 | Houston was its first president |
| 54% | SCLC | 4 | MLK was its first president |
| 52% | SCLC | 4 | M.L.K., Jr., was its first president |
| 50% | SENGHOR | 7 | First President of Senegal: Leopold __ |
| 48% | APRIL | 5 | Its first day is full of practical jokes |
| 46% | NOVA | 4 | Its first episode was "The Making of a Natural History Film" |
| 45% | LET | 3 | First word of Beatles' song ending It Be |
| 45% | JOESIMON | 8 | First editor of Timely Comics before it was Marvel |
| 44% | SEAN | 4 | Parker who was the first president of Facebook |
| 43% | ABE | 3 | Nickname of the first US president to be assassinated |
| 42% | JOHNSON | 7 | He was US president for the first 20 days of 1969 |
| 42% | ABBA | 4 | Quartet whose name is an acronym of its members' first names |
| 41% | TORI | 4 | First name of the author of the celebrity memoir "Spelling It Like It Is" |
| 41% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone whose first letter is the same as that of its month |
| 41% | CNN | 3 | Its first news broadcast was co-anchored by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Walker and Lois Hart |
| 40% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 40% | USN | 3 | JFK was the first president to have served in this branch of the US Armed Forces |
| 40% | NYS | 3 | Clinton was its first gov. |
| 40% | MEANY | 5 | George who was the first president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. |
| 40% | EBAY | 4 | One of its first customers was a collector of broken laser pointers |
| 40% | ELAL | 4 | President Chaim Weizmann was on its first flight |
| 39% | WOODROW | 7 | First name of a former president ... or, read another way, what each of the circled lines is |
| 39% | JACKSON | 7 | First US President to be the target of an assassination attempt (which failed), on January 30, 1835 |
| 39% | SAXONY | 6 | Henry I was its first king |
| 39% | MAD | 3 | Harvey Kurtzman was its first editor |
| 39% | SDS | 3 | Tom Hayden was its first pres. |
| 39% | AVON | 4 | 37-Across was its first earl |
| 39% | EBAY | 4 | Meg Whitman was its first CEO |
| 39% | GOD | 3 | What each set of circled letters is, relative to the first word in its answer |