| 100% | LEADSTORY | 9 | The first and most important news item |
| 50% | NUCLEUS | 7 | The central and most important part of something |
| 46% | LATEST | 6 | The most recent item; current, new |
| 42% | TOPSTORIES | 10 | Most important news reports |
| 40% | FOREMOST | 8 | First and __, most importantly |
| 39% | ANIMAL | 6 | One of many seen in the board games Ark Nova and New York Zoo |
| 39% | BLUEMONDAY | 10 | Most depressing date of the year, first declared in 2005 and contrived by many pseudo-scientific formulas |
| 39% | DARLENE | 7 | First name of the singer whose compilation albums include “So Much Love” and “The Sound of Love” |
| 39% | MAIN | 4 | Most important and vital |
| 38% | COMPARE | 7 | Weigh up the pros and cons of two or more items |
| 38% | WHITE | 5 | *He created a famous pig, and wrote for The New Yorker for more than fifty years |
| 37% | PRIVACY | 7 | Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments |
| 37% | SBS | 3 | Abbr. for the phenomenon when nonspecific symptoms are reported by many people in new homes and offices |
| 37% | ETC | 3 | And more of the same: Abbr. |
| 37% | TEASE | 5 | The first to relax and ridicule |
| 37% | SONS | 4 | The first were Cain and Abel |
| 37% | PERPETUALMOTION | 15 | Violation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics |
| 37% | FOREMOST | 8 | First and __; opening item on an agenda |
| 37% | ETAL | 4 | And more of the same, in brief |
| 37% | WILLIAM | 7 | The first name of Shakespeare and Shatner |
| 37% | TURN | 4 | The first to run off and spin |
| 37% | BED | 3 | The first "B" in "B and B" |
| 37% | ONCE | 4 | The first word in many fairy tales |
| 37% | SCOOPS | 6 | Airs a news item first |
| 36% | YANKEES | 7 | New York ___, MLB team and member of the AL East division that is the team with the most World Series titles |
| 36% | PIC | 3 | This news website - one of the most viewed by Palestinians - promotes awareness about Palestine and the Palestinian issue (abbr.) |
| 36% | PETERARNO | 9 | The New Yorker cartoonist who contributed 99 covers from 1925-69 and was once described as "the magazine's first genius" |
| 36% | THEPOWEROFLOVE | 14 | Huey Lewis and the News's first #1 hit, from 1985's "Back to the Future" soundtrack: 4 wds. |
| 36% | NEAP | 4 | Occurrence after the first and third quarters of the moon |
| 36% | URGES | 5 | They might occur in the first and second trimester, maybe |