100% | BUST | 4 | Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker's "38-26-36" |
40% | START | 5 | Word by the first square in a board game, often |
39% | SYSTOLICD | 9 | What the first number represents in a certain diagnostic test |
37% | PIXELS | 6 | The first P in a resolution's PPI |
37% | IGET | 4 | "___ Around," the first number-one charting song released by The Beach Boys in 1964: 2 wds. |
37% | SIXTEEN | 7 | Next number in a series suggested by the starts of 17-, 27-, 46- and 60-Across |
36% | BANG | 4 | Sound suggested by the first letters of the words in 17-, 26-, 44- and 58-Across |
36% | WINS | 4 | First number in a record |
36% | ONE | 3 | First number in a series |
36% | MINUEND | 7 | First number in a subtraction problem |
36% | ONE | 3 | First number in a crossword grid |
35% | SELF | 4 | The first "S" in S.A.S.E. |
35% | ASK | 3 | The first "A" in Reddit's A.M.A. |
34% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
34% | LOSSES | 6 | The second number in a record |
34% | HAYES | 5 | First president to have a phone in the White House—its number was "1" (1877) |
34% | ACE | 3 | The first card in a deck |
34% | ZERO | 4 | Number of games won by the losing player in a "bagel" set, in tennis |
33% | HAND | 4 | "I Want to Hold Your ___," 1963 song by The Beatles which was their first number 1 hit in America |
33% | TEN | 3 | First number in boxing countdown to a knockout |
33% | MEDIAN | 6 | The middle number in a sequence of numbers |
33% | STEPONE | 7 | The first instruction in a list of instructions |
33% | SURFERGIRL | 10 | One "standing by the ocean's roar," in a 1963 song |
33% | MEDIAN | 6 | The middle number in a sorted list of numbers |
33% | SOVIET | 6 | The first S in USSR |
33% | ACADEMY | 7 | The first A in BAFTA |
32% | TRI | 3 | The first "T" in 36-Down |
32% | VERSE | 5 | "Second ___, same as the first!" (line in a Herman's Hermits hit song) |
32% | IDEA | 4 | It's represented by a lightbulb, in the comics |
32% | THESEVENAGES | 12 | Collection by 36-Across that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2002 (3 wds.) |