| 100% | ALOHABOWL | 9 | The University of Washington won the first one in 1982 |
| 52% | PEACHBOWL | 9 | Louisiana State won the first one in 1968 |
| 50% | RAMIMALEK | 9 | Actor who became the first one of Egyptian heritage to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 50% | LIZAMINNELLI | 12 | "Cabaret" star and singer who won one of the first Grammy Legend Awards, in 1990: 2 wds. |
| 49% | SMOKEYROBINSON | 14 | "I Second That Emotion" singer who won one of the first Grammy Legend Awards, in 1990: 2 wds. |
| 49% | WILLIENELSON | 12 | "Always on My Mind" singer who won one of the first Grammy Legend Awards, in 1990: 2 wds. |
| 47% | OHIOSTATE | 9 | Big Ten East football team who played the University of Washington in the 2019 49-Across (2 wds.) |
| 47% | ELSA | 4 | One of two Disney characters singing "For the First Time in Forever" |
| 46% | JET | 3 | The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 |
| 46% | ATOMICPILE | 10 | The first one of these was built by Fermi and his team in 1942 |
| 45% | JAN | 3 | First one of the twelve in the whole year (abbr.) |
| 45% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 45% | TACOMA | 6 | City and seaport in Washington, US; seat of the University of Puget Sound |
| 45% | INSPECTORBUCKET | 15 | “Bleak House” character who was one of the first detectives in English fiction |
| 45% | SETPOINT | 8 | In tennis, the last one to win a group of games |
| 45% | JOELEDGERTON | 12 | "Loving" actor who plays the University of Washington rowing coach in "The Boys in the Boat" (2 wds.) |
| 45% | CALLUMTURNER | 12 | "Fantastic Beasts" actor who plays a University of Washington rower in "The Boys in the Boat" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | SONGOFTHEYEAR | 13 | One of the two Grammy categories won by 31-Across in 2013: 4 wds. |
| 44% | BESTNEWARTIST | 13 | One of the two Grammy categories won by 31-Across in 2013: 3 wds. |
| 44% | PSALM | 5 | The first one begins "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly" |
| 44% | PAGE | 4 | One of 15,490 in the first edition of the O.E.D. |
| 44% | IBIS | 4 | One of the first birds released by Noah after the flood, in legend |
| 44% | PAGE | 4 | One of 1,225 in the first published edition of "War and Peace" |
| 44% | COEDS | 5 | Some University of Virginia undergrads in 1969, for the first time |
| 44% | GINO | 4 | ___ Torretta, who played quarterback for the University of Miami and won the Heisman Trophy in 1992 |
| 43% | DOG | 3 | President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these |
| 43% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | DULLES | 6 | Washington ___ International Airport, one of the world's largest airports that is located in Virginia |
| 43% | NAT | 3 | ___ "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first Black players to play in the NBA |
| 43% | ANNABELLE | 9 | "___ Serpentine Dance," one of the first hand-tinted color films released in 1895 |