| 100% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 58% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 54% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 53% | OLYMPICS | 8 | The first modern one was held in Athens in 1896 |
| 51% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 50% | WORD | 4 | The first one in this clue is "The" |
| 49% | COLUMN | 6 | This answer is in the third one of this puzzle |
| 47% | ELDORADO | 8 | The first complete navigation of the Amazon was in search of this |
| 47% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 47% | ALIENS | 6 | One of the eggs used in this 1986 film is now exhibited at the Smithsonian |
| 46% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 46% | DOOM | 4 | First-person shooter game released in 1993 by id Software which is considered to be one of the most influential video games of all time |
| 45% | CAN | 3 | Warhol painted one of these 32 times for his first one-man gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery in 1962 |
| 45% | TRACY | 5 | "Dick ___," one of the longest-running American comic strips which was first published in October 1931 |
| 45% | JOHNGRISHAMNOVEL | 16 | What the first word of each of seven answers in this puzzle is, when preceded by “The” |
| 45% | THEBIGBANG | 10 | The mathematics of this theory was one of the things Stephen Hawking was engrossed in |
| 44% | TET | 3 | ___ris was one of the first video games made |
| 44% | BONAPARTE | 9 | Napoleon ___, one of the greatest conquerors of all time who is studied in military schools to this day |
| 44% | ELIS | 4 | Today's region of Greece in which the ancient games of Olympia were held |
| 43% | CEL | 3 | In 1989 one of these from the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was sold at Sotheby's for $50,600 |
| 43% | PACMAN | 6 | One of the most popular arcade games in the world, where the player has to avoid being eaten by the 4 ghosts: Hyph. |
| 43% | ATM | 3 | Installation of October 1997 in Canada's capital was the world's first talking one of these |
| 43% | SEN | 3 | Kelly Loeffler of GA is the most recent one of these, in brief |
| 42% | RACE | 4 | What the vehicle in "lane one" of this crossword is winning? |
| 42% | ATHENS | 6 | City where the first modern Olympic games were held |
| 42% | TEDTALK | 7 | The first one was delivered in 1984 |
| 42% | EMAIL | 5 | The first one was sent in 1971 |
| 42% | USN | 3 | JFK was the first president to have served in this branch of the US Armed Forces |
| 42% | PROGRESS | 8 | The first step in this is discontent |
| 42% | THELASTOF | 9 | "___ Us," one of the best-selling PlayStation video games released in 2013 that is set in a post-apocalyptic U.S.: 3 wds. |