| 100% | COUCHGAG | 8 | The first one appeared in the opening sequence for "Bart the Genius" |
| 48% | KMART | 5 | The first one opened in Detroit in 1962 |
| 47% | KMART | 5 | The first one opened in Garden City, Mich., in 1962 |
| 46% | SSN | 3 | The first one was issued in 1936, for short |
| 44% | OPED | 4 | The first one in The New York Times appeared in 1970 |
| 43% | YMCA | 4 | The first US one opened in Boston in 1851 |
| 43% | ANOTHERWORLD | 12 | Show Peter (Christopher Knight) appeared on for one season in the 1980s |
| 42% | FITZGERALD | 10 | Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the circled squares |
| 42% | GEORGESMILEY | 12 | Fictional spy who first appeared in "Call for the Dead" |
| 41% | MYGIRL | 6 | First number one hit for the Temptations, way back in '65 |
| 40% | SMORE | 5 | The first recipe for one was published in "Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts" (1927) |
| 40% | KINGKONG | 8 | Giant ape known for climbing Empire State which appears in a racing sequence in "Ready Player One": 2 wds. |
| 39% | RAMIMALEK | 9 | Actor who became the first one of Egyptian heritage to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 39% | ALMANAC | 7 | The first one printed in America was in 1639 |
| 39% | IVS | 3 | Ones stuck in the hospital, for short? |
| 39% | BART | 4 | First character shown in the opening credits of “The Simpsons” |
| 38% | PLANE | 5 | Commercial aircraft; the first one flew in 1903 |
| 38% | ADAM | 4 | One there in the first place |
| 38% | PDA | 3 | Kissing in the open, for short |
| 38% | HBOMB | 5 | The first one went off in 1952 |
| 38% | TEDTALK | 7 | The first one was delivered in 1984 |
| 38% | EMAIL | 5 | The first one was sent in 1971 |
| 38% | ELSA | 4 | One of two Disney characters singing "For the First Time in Forever" |
| 37% | GAG | 3 | Couch ___ (visual humor in the opening sequence of "The Simpsons") |
| 37% | HOURGLASS | 9 | Timer in the opening sequence of "Days of Our Lives" |
| 37% | WORD | 4 | The first one in this clue is "The" |
| 37% | CAN | 3 | Warhol painted one of these 32 times for his first one-man gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery in 1962 |
| 37% | HAG | 3 | One of three in the opening scene of "Macbeth" |
| 37% | EVE | 3 | One-named rapper who appears in the "Barbershop" films |
| 37% | MPS | 3 | Ones serving in the House of Commons, for short |