| 100% | SELF | 4 | The first "S" in S.A.S.E. |
| 84% | SWEEP | 5 | Win the first four games in a World Series, e.g. |
| 83% | PIXELS | 6 | The first P in a resolution's PPI |
| 79% | SOVIET | 6 | The first S in USSR |
| 78% | ASK | 3 | The first "A" in Reddit's A.M.A. |
| 76% | BUST | 4 | Measurement signified by the first number in a dressmaker's "38-26-36" |
| 76% | ALAN | 4 | The first "A" in A.A. Milne |
| 75% | HINTON | 6 | S. E. ___, "The Outsiders" author who made a guest appearance in the book's film adaptation |
| 75% | ACADEMY | 7 | The first A in BAFTA |
| 75% | TUE | 3 | The first of two T's, in a familiar sequence |
| 75% | SOV | 3 | The first "S" in S.S.R.: Abbr. |
| 75% | STAT | 4 | A.S.A.P., in the E.R. |
| 75% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S in USSR stood for |
| 74% | ACE | 3 | The first card in a deck |
| 74% | VERSE | 5 | "Second ___, same as the first!" (line in a Herman's Hermits hit song) |
| 73% | ALSO | 4 | The first "a" in a k a |
| 73% | ALSO | 4 | The first "A" in A.K.A. |
| 72% | MOTOROLA | 8 | The first company to sell a cellphone, in 1973 |
| 71% | LAPD | 4 | First law enforcement org. in the U.S. to hire a female officer (1910) |
| 70% | SOVIET | 6 | What the first S stood for in USSR |
| 70% | LED | 3 | Took the first position in a procession, say |
| 70% | ONCE | 4 | Usually the first word in a fairy tale |
| 70% | OBOE | 4 | It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth |
| 70% | MELBOURNE | 9 | 1956 Olympics site, the first in the S hemisphere |
| 70% | TENTH | 5 | Numerically, the first extra inning in a baseball game |
| 70% | OPEN | 4 | Make the first bid in a game of bridge |
| 70% | NPR | 3 | Media network for Susan Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a nightly news program in the U.S. |
| 69% | STD | 3 | The S in a time-zone abbr. |
| 69% | HONDAACCORD | 11 | First car from a Japanese manufacturer to be made in the U.S. (1982) |
| 69% | ALA | 3 | Southern state that's first alphabetically in a list of the 50 states: Abbr. |