| 100% | ACTUALLY | 8 | Monica Heisey's debut novel is Really Good, __ |
| 41% | SLAPS | 5 | Is really good |
| 41% | SLAP | 4 | Be really good |
| 40% | SLAPS | 5 | Is really good, songwise |
| 37% | MIRACLE | 7 | Even a minor one is really good |
| 37% | TECHIES | 7 | People who are really good with computers |
| 37% | RIVERTON | 8 | "The House at ___," Australian author Kate Morton's debut novel that was a bestseller |
| 36% | ACE | 3 | One who is really good at what he does |
| 36% | ANNE | 4 | Rice whose debut novel was "Interview With the Vampire" |
| 36% | RINGER | 6 | Someone who's really too good to be competing |
| 35% | ELENAFORBES | 11 | Crime writer whose 2007 debut novel was Die with Me |
| 35% | HAT | 3 | Where some are really good at pulling rabbits out of |
| 32% | ITHEJURY | 8 | 1947 debut novel by Mickey Spillane whose protagonist is Mike Hammer |
| 31% | THENATURAL | 10 | Bernard Malamud's debut novel |
| 31% | AGNESGREY | 9 | Anne Brontë's debut novel |
| 31% | CARRIE | 6 | Stephen King's debut novel |
| 31% | TOO | 3 | "___ Good to Be True: A Novel" (Carola Lovering novel) |
| 31% | TWA | 3 | "Find out how good we really are" sloganeer |
| 31% | BATS | 4 | The fringe-lipped varieties of these central and south American critters are really good at catching frogs |
| 31% | TEETH | 5 | "White ___" (Zadie Smith's debut novel) |
| 30% | WILLACATHER | 11 | "Alexander's Bridge" was her debut novel (1912) |
| 30% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | American writer Ernest, who won the Nobel in 1954 and whose debut novel was "The Sun Also Rises" |
| 30% | BEAN | 4 | "The ___ Trees" (Barbara Kingsolver's debut novel) |
| 30% | EARTH | 5 | "The Good ___" (Pearl S. Buck novel) |
| 30% | NAS | 3 | Rapper whose 2012 album "Life Is Good" debuted at #1 |
| 30% | WAS | 3 | "That __ Then, This Is Now" (1971 S. E. Hinton novel) |
| 30% | KILLINGFLOOR | 12 | Debut novel by 25-Across that was the basis for the first season of "Reacher" (2 wds.) |
| 29% | ELWORTHY | 8 | S —, South Africa cricketer whose 1998 Test debut was against England at Nottingham |
| 29% | TAIT | 4 | S W —, Australia cricketer whose 2005 Test debut was against England at Nottingham |
| 29% | UDAL | 4 | S D —, cricketer whose 2005 England Test debut was against Pakistan at Multan |