| 100% | BOA | 3 | Scarf is smelly and acrid at first |
| 41% | RENATASCO | 9 | Both her first and last performances at the Met were "Madama Butterfly" |
| 38% | SANS | 4 | After 1-Across, what the first names at 20-, 36-, 43- and 57-Across all are? |
| 38% | ITSGROWINGONME | 14 | "I wasn't sure at first, but ...," or what could be said about the ends of 16-, 26-, and 44-Across? |
| 37% | ELTONJOHN | 9 | His "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard |
| 37% | VVEBDUBOIS | 10 | Historian, essayist and civil rights leader who was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard |
| 36% | BASEMEN | 7 | Players at first and second |
| 36% | ROBINSON | 8 | At first, __ Crusoe was alone on an island |
| 36% | NADIA | 5 | She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist and the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Games |
| 35% | PETRIFIED | 9 | At first I was afraid I was __, sang Gloria Gaynor |
| 34% | SEVENS | 6 | Be at sixes and __, all muddled up |
| 34% | LAST | 4 | " … and the ___ shall be first": Matthew |
| 34% | MARTHAGRAHAM | 12 | American dancer who was the first dancer to perform at the White House and to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom: 2 wds. |
| 33% | APPLE | 5 | First company to be valued at $1 trillion |
| 33% | SONS | 4 | Cain and Abel were the first |
| 33% | NEAT | 4 | Everything at house was ___ and tidy |
| 33% | BECK | 4 | “I am at your — and call” |
| 33% | PETRIFIED | 9 | G. Gaynor's song, At first I was afraid, I was __ |
| 33% | TAFT | 4 | First president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery |
| 33% | BROADCAST | 9 | First TV __ by Rignoux and Fournier was in 1909 |
| 32% | YMCA | 4 | Where basketball and volleyball were first played |
| 32% | NAPOLEONIII | 11 | He was defeated and captured at Sedan |
| 32% | STARTUPS | 8 | Google and Facebook, at first |
| 32% | APPLE | 5 | First U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion |
| 32% | WILDPITCHES | 11 | And the tempestuous finale was played at a variety of... |
| 32% | ATOM | 4 | It was first split at Cambridge in 1932 |
| 32% | OSX | 3 | Its first versions were Cheetah, Puma and Jaguar |
| 31% | APPLE | 5 | First public U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion |
| 31% | SARI | 4 | First name that socialite and actress Zsa Zsa was born with |
| 31% | BEATTY | 6 | Naval commander at Jutland and a First Sea Lord |