| 100% | PLEASURE | 8 | Nyman's piano piece, The Heart Asks __ First |
| 37% | PAWN | 4 | Chess piece that's often the first to be played |
| 36% | SOVIET | 6 | The first S in USSR |
| 35% | ATRIA | 5 | Pieces of the heart |
| 35% | NAME | 4 | "What's your ___?" question you ask someone you met for the first time |
| 34% | SELF | 4 | The first "S" in S.A.S.E. |
| 34% | SOV | 3 | The first "S" in S.S.R.: Abbr. |
| 34% | HATTER | 6 | First witness called during the trial of the Knave of Hearts, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" |
| 34% | MLK | 3 | First president of the S.C.L.C. |
| 34% | BARNARD | 7 | Christiaan __ performed the first heart transplant |
| 34% | ASKS | 4 | Dickinson's "The Heart __ Pleasure First" |
| 34% | SHEL | 4 | First name on the cover of The Missing Piece |
| 33% | WINAPAWN | 8 | Capture the first piece in chess, typically |
| 33% | AORTA | 5 | The heart's major artery |
| 33% | AORTA | 5 | The heart's main artery |
| 33% | PAWN | 4 | The first piece usually moved in a game of chess |
| 33% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S in USSR stood for |
| 33% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S stood for in USSR |
| 32% | VANCLIBURN | 10 | Winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, 1958 |
| 32% | HENRY | 5 | & 16D US composer of 1917 piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun who authored 1930 book New Musical Resources |
| 32% | MELBOURNE | 9 | 1956 Olympics site, the first in the S hemisphere |
| 32% | USEOFTWOHANDSANDANOSE | 21 | Mystery Person once composed a piano piece that, to be performed correctly, required the ... |
| 31% | PAWN | 4 | Usually the first piece moved in a game of chess |
| 31% | AFLAT | 5 | Most common key of Chopin's piano pieces |
| 31% | ATRIA | 5 | Two of the heart's chambers |
| 31% | RIB | 3 | Part of the heart's cage? |
| 31% | ASKS | 4 | ''The heart __ pleasure first'': Dickinson |
| 31% | ETUDE | 5 | Piano student's piece |
| 31% | VENTRICLE | 9 | The heart's two lower chambers: right and left __ |
| 30% | HOME | 4 | Where the heart is, it's said |