| 100% | JAMESJOYCE | 10 | The first part of his ''Ulysses'' was published in 1918 |
| 53% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 48% | XXXXXX | 6 | First part of a name in the "Star Wars" universe |
| 47% | CROSSWORDS | 10 | The first book of them was published |
| 47% | OUTSWAM | 7 | Defeated in the first part of a triathlon |
| 47% | ALP | 3 | Part of it is often in the clouds |
| 46% | CORNEA | 6 | Part of the body first successfully transplanted in 1905 |
| 46% | JUMPSTART | 9 | Battery boost ... and what the first part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |
| 46% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 45% | RUNNINGMATE | 11 | Vice presidential hopeful, and what the first part of the answer to each starred clue can be |
| 45% | ELDORADO | 8 | The first complete navigation of the Amazon was in search of this |
| 45% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 44% | MOSES | 5 | Party of the first part in the Bible? |
| 44% | RIM | 3 | Part of a glass which is rolled in salt for the cocktail Margarita |
| 44% | FEET | 4 | Parts of the body that are slightly larger in the evening than morning |
| 43% | PRUFROCK | 8 | "The Love Song of J. Alfred ___," poem by T.S. Eliot which was his first published poem |
| 43% | TITIAN | 6 | His "Venus of Urbino" is in the Uffizi |
| 42% | GOREVIDALNOVELS | 15 | What the first words of eight long answers in this puzzle are |
| 42% | RIKER | 5 | Will, first officer of the Enterprise in Star Trek |
| 42% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 42% | VCR | 3 | The first commercial one of these was introduced by Ampex in 1956 and cost roughly $50,000 |
| 42% | ABEL | 4 | His murder elicited the first wail of mourning, in Islamic accounts |
| 42% | NATURE | 6 | Scientific journal in which the existence of neutrons was first proposed |
| 42% | WILLACATHER | 11 | Her ''My Ántonia'' was published in 1918 |
| 42% | ROYAL | 5 | ___ Library, part of the University of Copenhagen which is the largest library in the Nordic countries |
| 41% | SUP | 3 | Publishing arm of the California school that admitted its first students in 1891 (abbr.) |
| 41% | BRAINSTEM | 9 | The medulla is found in this part of the body |
| 41% | SOW | 3 | Do the first part of some field work? |
| 41% | DUODENUM | 8 | First part of the small intestine |
| 41% | BELONGS | 7 | Is part of the "in" crowd |