| 100% | ALMANAC | 7 | The first one printed in America was in 1639 |
| 57% | WORD | 4 | The first one in this clue is "The" |
| 56% | POPE | 4 | Francis is the first one from the Americas |
| 55% | TEDTALK | 7 | The first one was delivered in 1984 |
| 55% | EMAIL | 5 | The first one was sent in 1971 |
| 55% | MOTEL | 5 | The first one was built in 1925 in San Luis Obispo, Calif. |
| 54% | SSN | 3 | The first one was issued in 1936, for short |
| 53% | STATEPARK | 9 | Niagara Reservation was the first one in 1885 |
| 53% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 53% | DENALI | 6 | Mountain in North America which is one of the Seven Summits and which was first climbed in 1913 |
| 52% | ZACH | 4 | ___ Gowen, professional wrestler who is the first one-legged competitor in WWE |
| 52% | BROWSERWAR | 10 | Navigator was in the first one |
| 51% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 51% | OLYMPICS | 8 | The first modern one was held in Athens in 1896 |
| 51% | RABBI | 5 | The first ordained female one was Regina Jonas in 1935 |
| 51% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 50% | SMORE | 5 | The first recipe for one was published in "Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts" (1927) |
| 50% | RITE | 4 | Learning to read and w___ is one of the first things taught in school |
| 50% | ISP | 3 | "The World" in Mass. was the first commercial one, in '89 |
| 49% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked" |
| 49% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 49% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 49% | PIE | 3 | The first one to be filmed hitting someone in the face was in the 1909 film Mr. Flip |
| 49% | HOPPER | 6 | Scientist and naval officer Grace ___ who was one of the first three pioneers in computer programming |
| 48% | IDS | 3 | "Real" ones were first issued in the 2010s |
| 48% | NOVA | 4 | The first recorded one was noted by the Greek scientist Hipparchus in 134 B.C. |
| 48% | GRAND | 5 | The ___ Canyon, located in Arizona, that is one of America's natural wonders |
| 48% | ORR | 3 | He was the first hockey player to have 100 assists in one season |
| 48% | INSPECTORBUCKET | 15 | “Bleak House” character who was one of the first detectives in English fiction |
| 47% | FALLS | 5 | The Niagara ___, located in New York, that is one of America's natural wonders |