| 100% | YDS | 3 | The ten in "first and ten": Abbr. |
| 76% | DOWN | 4 | The "first" in "first and ten" |
| 74% | DOWN | 4 | The "first" in "first and ten," in football |
| 65% | ROREM | 5 | Ned, who composed "Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra", first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 |
| 62% | BELLE | 5 | First song in "Beauty and the Beast" |
| 62% | BED | 3 | The first "B" in "B and B" |
| 62% | ORIG | 4 | In the first place: abbr. |
| 62% | THOU | 4 | First word in most of the Ten Commandments |
| 62% | BELLE | 5 | The first song in "Beauty and the Beast" |
| 61% | ASSN | 4 | The first "A" in "NAACP": Abbr. |
| 61% | ISE | 3 | Nasdaq ___, launched in 2000 and the first all-electronic trader in US equity options (abbr.) |
| 61% | HEDY | 4 | First name in the cast of Samson and Delilah |
| 61% | PROVOLONE | 9 | In favor of the first book?: Abbr. |
| 61% | TNT | 3 | Airer of "Murder in the First": Abbr. |
| 61% | CSF | 3 | Liquid in the spine and brain: Abbr. |
| 60% | DOB | 3 | First lesbian civil and political rights org. in the US, formed in 1955 (abbr.) |
| 60% | ARNOLD | 6 | First and last name in the cast of "True Lies" |
| 60% | SOV | 3 | The first "S" in S.S.R.: Abbr. |
| 60% | PRIVACY | 7 | Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments |
| 59% | INITS | 5 | The J. and K. in J. K. Rowling: Abbr. |
| 59% | FBI | 3 | Intelligence agency in "Judas and the Black Messiah": Abbr. |
| 59% | LTS | 3 | Fuzz and Flap, in the comics: Abbr. |
| 59% | SSRS | 4 | Latvia and Lithuania, in the '60s: Abbr. |
| 58% | YELLOWSTONE | 11 | The world's first national park, located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho |
| 58% | URGES | 5 | They might occur in the first and second trimester, maybe |
| 58% | OREO | 4 | Cookie in the shape of its first and last letters |
| 58% | WNBA | 4 | The Sun and Mercury are in it: Abbr. |
| 58% | USD | 3 | Green in the Red, White, and Blue: abbr. |
| 57% | XXXXX | 5 | Shape of the first and last letters in the Subway logo |
| 57% | OCTAVE | 6 | Interval between the first and eighth notes in a musical scale |