| 100% | SONATA | 6 | Traditional form for the first movement of a string quartet |
| 42% | APP | 3 | A short name for the first course of a meal |
| 41% | ACRONYM | 7 | Word formed by the first letters of a series of words |
| 40% | TEE | 3 | It's used for the first stroke of a golf hole |
| 40% | CELLOSUITE | 10 | Digs for a member of a string quartet? |
| 40% | STEER | 5 | Control the movement of a vessel, for one |
| 38% | VIOLA | 5 | Part of a string quartet |
| 38% | CELLO | 5 | Member of a string quartet |
| 38% | VIOLA | 5 | Member of a string quartet |
| 38% | NAVIGATOR | 9 | Someone responsible for the movements of a boat |
| 37% | ACTS | 4 | First book of the New Testament that isn't named for a person |
| 37% | CELLOMOLD | 9 | Target of a string quartet's fungicide? |
| 37% | BAA | 3 | First word of a nursery rhyme that ends "And one for the little boy who lives down the lane" |
| 37% | ARIA | 4 | First movement of the "Goldberg Variations" |
| 37% | PREMIERE | 8 | The first showing of a movie |
| 37% | PRINCEPS | 8 | The first printing of a book |
| 36% | HOI | 3 | First part of a two-word rhyming term for "the masses" |
| 36% | OUTBOUND | 8 | The first leg of a return journey |
| 36% | HRC | 3 | Inits. of the first female presidential candidate for a major party |
| 36% | SHIFT | 5 | Tectonic plate ___, movement of the earth's tectonic plates that is a proposed theory for the extinction of dinosaurs |
| 35% | OBOE | 4 | It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth |
| 35% | FROGSPAWN | 9 | The first stage of a tadpole's life cycle |
| 35% | DOS | 3 | Heading for the first of two columns |
| 35% | TOTERM | 6 | For the full length of a pregnancy |
| 35% | MARY | 4 | ___ Martin, first Broadway actress to win a Tony Award for playing someone of the opposite sex |
| 35% | BILLWALTON | 10 | NBA player for the Portland Trail Blazers, whose career was ended by a string of foot and ankle injuries: 2 wds. |
| 35% | EMIL | 4 | First name of the very first winner of the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 1929 |
| 35% | ADDUCTION | 9 | Movement of a body part toward or over the midline |
| 35% | ONCE | 4 | The first word of a fairy tale, ___ upon a time |
| 35% | TIC | 3 | The first X of a winning X-X-X combo |