| 100% | TARP | 4 | Slow roller from first to third? |
| 62% | SKIPSAGRADE | 11 | Goes from first to third, say |
| 62% | SKIP | 4 | Go from first to third, say |
| 61% | SKIP | 4 | Go from first to third grade, say |
| 49% | ENDTOEND | 8 | From first to last |
| 49% | THROUGHOUT | 10 | From first to last |
| 47% | ENDTOEND | 8 | From first to last (3 words) |
| 45% | SHIFTS | 6 | Goes from first to second, say |
| 45% | BASEPATH | 8 | What takes someone from first to second |
| 41% | ADVANCE | 7 | Move from first base to second, say |
| 41% | MARGGRAF | 8 | Andreas __; first to extract sugar from beets |
| 41% | SHIFT | 5 | Go from second to third, say |
| 40% | UPGRADE | 7 | To move to first class from economy |
| 40% | SHIFT | 5 | Go from second to third gear, say |
| 39% | TAGUP | 5 | Prepare to score from third, say |
| 38% | EVOLUTION | 9 | Slow changing of humans from Stone Age to now |
| 38% | HOUSTON | 7 | First word spoken to earth from the lunar surface |
| 38% | WEBDUBOIS | 9 | First Black American to get a PhD from Harvard |
| 38% | HAMPSHIRE | 9 | First U.S. college to divest from apartheid South Africa |
| 38% | GHANA | 5 | First sub-Saharan country to obtain independence from colonial rule |
| 37% | CAROLINA | 8 | South __, first state to secede from the USA |
| 37% | HEAD | 4 | The first blank in this phrase: From ___ to ___ |
| 37% | DOWNSHIFTED | 11 | Went from second to first, say |
| 37% | OBAMAS | 6 | First Family from 2009 to 2017 |
| 37% | SLOTH | 5 | Slow mammal known to be "lazy" like Sid from "Ice Age" |
| 37% | SPIRO | 5 | First name of the second vice president to resign from office |
| 37% | UPGRADE | 7 | Move to first class from a lower price bracket |
| 36% | RESEAT | 6 | Move from economy to first class, maybe |
| 36% | IRT | 3 | Its first line went from City Hall to 145th St. |
| 35% | FLATTENTHECURVE | 15 | Slow a disease’s spread to prevent health-care systems from becoming overwhelmed |