| 100% | JEEP | 4 | The 2020 Gladiator is this brand's first pick-up truck in over 25 years |
| 37% | RADIO | 5 | In 1922, Warren G. Harding became the first U.S. president to be broadcast over this |
| 36% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 35% | ELM | 3 | Over 50% of the trees in NYC's Central Park are of this variety |
| 32% | ANDREWWIGGINS | 13 | 2015 NBA Rookie of the Year who was the first overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft (2 wds.) |
| 32% | IONESCU | 7 | Sabrina ___, selected by the WNBA NY Liberty as the first overall pick in the draft in April of this year |
| 31% | NEW | 3 | The countdown's over! Let's welcome 2025, the ___ Year is celebrated throughout this puzzle! |
| 31% | SATS | 4 | Tests that, in the U.S., will be administered digitally starting this year |
| 31% | PROGRESS | 8 | The first step in this is discontent |
| 31% | USA | 3 | This nation's athlete is the first figure skater to land eight quads in a competition |
| 30% | WORD | 4 | The first one in this clue is "The" |
| 30% | CLOROX | 6 | Brand whose stock price increased 50% in the first six months of 2020 |
| 30% | PURSE | 5 | In the Boston Marathon this was over $830,500 |
| 30% | LEBRONJAMES | 11 | Los Angeles Lakers forward who was Time's Athlete of the Year in 2020 (2 wds.) |
| 30% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | This two-word phrase is the first line in Hamlet |
| 30% | STICKS | 6 | Pick these up at five, six in the counting rhyme |
| 30% | CONVENTION | 10 | The Democrats are scheduled for one in Milwaukee this year |
| 30% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 29% | INVISIBLE | 9 | The __ Man, he can't be seen in this 2020 film |
| 29% | TWEET | 5 | The first was in July 2006, but it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year in 2009 |
| 29% | TOBACCO | 7 | Rolfe was the first to cultivate this in Virginia |
| 29% | OPS | 3 | Roderick Ross was the first chief constable for this force, established in Canada's capital in 1855 (abbr.) |
| 29% | ELDORADO | 8 | The first complete navigation of the Amazon was in search of this |
| 29% | EGG | 3 | This can be over 3 lb in the case of an ostrich |
| 29% | EVAPERON | 8 | Actress LuPone's first Tony Award was for playing this Argentinian political leader in the 1979 Broadway musical "Evita": 2 wds. |
| 29% | JAMESBOND | 9 | Dr. No was the first film in this spy series |
| 29% | PAGE | 4 | "Tomorrow is the first ___ in a book of 365" (common New Year's phrase) |
| 29% | RENAS | 5 | Bitter who was the Ambassador to Laos until this year and Sofer who starred in TV's "Always and Forever" |
| 29% | BOX | 3 | Container (and, in a way, what you will find outlined by this year's clues related to the mega-meta) |
| 28% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |