| 100% | BLEU | 4 | The first of three in the French Tricolour |
| 59% | AGAMEMNON | 9 | First of the three plays In Aeschylus' Oresteia |
| 58% | NOTRE | 5 | First word of the Lord's Prayer in French |
| 58% | TOY | 3 | First word in the titles of three Pixar movies |
| 58% | TOOMUCHHEAVEN | 13 | Song that was the first of three #1 singles by 42-Across in 1979 (3 wds.) |
| 57% | EEL | 3 | Fish hidden in the first three letters of "electricity" |
| 56% | STRAW | 5 | Makeup of the first house in "The Three Little Pigs" |
| 56% | POM | 3 | Big name in fruit juice, or the first three letters of the fruit in it |
| 55% | HOPPER | 6 | Scientist and naval officer Grace ___ who was one of the first three pioneers in computer programming |
| 54% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 54% | YEAR | 4 | Span represented by the first three letters of 12 answers in this puzzle |
| 54% | THY | 3 | Word used three times in the first four lines of the Lord's Prayer |
| 54% | SEALS | 5 | Animals whose habitat can be found in the first three letters of their name |
| 53% | STUFFING | 8 | The meaning of farce in a French restaurant |
| 53% | ADELE | 5 | First solo female singer with three songs in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously |
| 52% | DOT | 3 | One of three in the word Fiji |
| 52% | ZERO | 4 | One of three in the Y2K year |
| 52% | SHIELD | 6 | One of three in the Buick logo |
| 52% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Beijing" |
| 52% | OVAL | 4 | One of three in the Toyota logo |
| 52% | DOT | 3 | Any of three in the word "Fiji" |
| 52% | ELM | 3 | Symbol of liberty in the French Revolution |
| 52% | LAC | 3 | Body of water in the French Alps |
| 52% | HBOMAX | 6 | Streaming service that dropped the first three letters of its name when it rebranded in 2023 |
| 52% | PIP | 3 | One of three in the Domino's logo |
| 52% | SILHOUETTE | 10 | One of three in the Girl Scouts logo |
| 52% | DOOR | 4 | One of three in the Monty Hall problem |
| 52% | MONTGOLFIER | 11 | Joseph-Michel —, French inventor with brother Jacques-Etienne of the first practical hot-air balloon in 1783 |
| 51% | HENS | 4 | Three French ___ (gift in "The Twelve Days of Christmas") |
| 51% | HAG | 3 | One of three in the opening scene of "Macbeth" |