| 100% | EVESDIARY | 9 | Mark Twain tale narrated in the first person by a noted first woman |
| 38% | DRWHO | 5 | BBC classic whose title role will be played by a woman for the first time in 2017 |
| 37% | UPON | 4 | Word in the first sentence of a fairy tale |
| 37% | ODYSSEUS | 8 | Robot that landed on the moon in February 2024, marking the first moon landing by a private company |
| 36% | ONCE | 4 | Usually the first word in a fairy tale |
| 35% | START | 5 | Word by the first square in a board game, often |
| 35% | FALL | 4 | "The ___ of Gondolin," one of the original Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien which is about a secret city of elves in the First Age of Middle-earth |
| 35% | SPOT | 4 | In billiards, the white ball distinguished from the plain ball by a mark |
| 34% | NOVA | 4 | The first recorded one was noted by the Greek scientist Hipparchus in 134 B.C. |
| 34% | BUST | 4 | Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker's "38-26-36" |
| 34% | DOT | 3 | In music, the symbol placed after a note to increase its time value by a half |
| 34% | ALTHEAGIBSON | 12 | In 1957, she became the first person of color to win a Wimbledon championship (2 wds.) |
| 34% | DIAMONDJIMBRADY | 15 | Tycoon who was the first person in New York City to own a car |
| 34% | EVE | 3 | Woman who was tempted by a serpent in the Book of Genesis |
| 33% | OCTAVE | 6 | Interval between the first and eighth notes in a musical scale |
| 33% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 33% | INJUNJOE | 8 | Villain in 1876 novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain |
| 33% | IDES | 4 | Day originally marked by a full moon in the early Roman calendar |
| 33% | MONA | 4 | First name of the woman in a famously mysterious portrait |
| 33% | LIFEGUARD | 9 | Person who sits in a tall chair by the pool |
| 33% | JULIEDASH | 9 | First black woman to direct a feature-length film distributed theatrically in the United States |
| 32% | BEACHBABY | 9 | One "there on the sand," in a 1974 hit by The First Class |
| 32% | UTA | 3 | ___ Pippig, first woman to win the Boston Marathon three times in a row |
| 32% | ANGELA | 6 | Bassett who was the first person to be nominated for an Oscar for acting in a Marvel movie |
| 32% | ITO | 3 | In 1981, she became the first woman to land a triple-triple jump combination in competition |
| 32% | ROME | 4 | First city to reach a population of one million people, in the second century B.C. |
| 32% | PUDDNHEAD | 9 | & 21A 1894 novel by Mark Twain set in the town of Dawson's Landing |
| 32% | REBA | 4 | McEntire who is the first woman to portray Colonel Sanders in a KFC ad |
| 32% | ITO | 3 | Olympic skater who was the first woman to land a triple axel in competition |