| 100% | IDOLATRY | 8 | Practice forbidden by the First Commandment |
| 60% | IDOL | 4 | ___ worship (practice forbidden by the Ten Commandments) |
| 48% | TABOO | 5 | Forbidden by the society |
| 47% | TABOO | 5 | Forbidden by the society, say |
| 45% | SEPTET | 6 | Steep change by the first group |
| 45% | SPEECH | 6 | Freedom protected by the First Amendment |
| 45% | PRESS | 5 | Freedom protected by the First Amendment |
| 45% | ASSEMBLY | 8 | Freedom protected by the First Amendment |
| 44% | MIR | 3 | Site visited by the first space tourist |
| 44% | NIGHTWING | 9 | Superhero identity adopted by the first Robin |
| 44% | SMALLPOX | 8 | Viral disease cured by the first vaccine |
| 43% | WASHINGTONMACHINE | 17 | Appliance invented by the first U.S. president? |
| 42% | START | 5 | Word by the first square in a board game, often |
| 42% | JASON | 5 | Name spelled by the first letters of consecutive calendar months |
| 42% | DINER | 5 | The first feature film directed by Barry Levinson |
| 41% | IDOLATRY | 8 | Something prohibited by the Ten Commandments |
| 41% | UBOAT | 5 | Something forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles after W.W. I |
| 41% | EVA | 3 | Spacewalk performed by the first all-female team in 2019 (Abbr.) |
| 41% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 40% | TWENTYQUESTIONS | 15 | Game suggested by the first words of 17-, 25- and 42-Across |
| 40% | MATINEEIDOL | 11 | Figure described by the first words of 17-, 28- and 45-Across |
| 40% | MILLIESBOOK | 11 | 1990 biography "dictated" to Barbara Bush by the First Dog (2 wds.) |
| 40% | SMALLPOX | 8 | Disease eradicated by the world's first vaccine |
| 40% | FIG | 3 | One of the first fruits cultivated by humans |
| 40% | STOPLIGHT | 9 | Signal hinted at by the first parts of 17-, 31- and 46-Acros |
| 40% | BUST | 4 | Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker's "38-26-36" |
| 40% | ZZTOP | 5 | Rock band whose name is suggested by the first row of this puzzle |
| 40% | YEAR | 4 | Span represented by the first three letters of 12 answers in this puzzle |
| 39% | SAINT | 5 | Ulrich was the first one created by a pope |
| 39% | SUICIDES | 8 | The Virgin __, first film by Sofia Coppola |