| 100% | KETANJI | 7 | With 38- and 43-Across, the first Black woman and first former federal public defender confirmed to the Supreme Court (April, 2022) |
| 31% | RUTH | 4 | First name of the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court |
| 30% | RONALDREAGAN | 12 | U.S. president who was the first born in Illinois, the first to have been divorced, and the first to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (2 wds.) |
| 30% | ELENA | 5 | First name of the most recent woman appointed to the US Supreme Court |
| 29% | THURGOOD | 8 | With 38-Across, first African-American Supreme Court justice |
| 29% | YELLEN | 6 | First woman to head both the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve |
| 28% | DAY | 3 | Sandra ___ O’Connor (first woman to serve on the Supreme Court) |
| 28% | OCONNOR | 7 | First woman on the Supreme Court |
| 28% | OBAMA | 5 | President who appointed two women to the Supreme Court |
| 28% | OBAMA | 5 | Appointer of Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court |
| 28% | OBAMA | 5 | He appointed Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court |
| 28% | OBAMA | 5 | Who nominated Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court |
| 28% | RBG | 3 | Clinton's first appointee to the Supreme Court, informally |
| 27% | OBAMA | 5 | President Barack who appointed two women to the Supreme Court |
| 27% | OBAMA | 5 | President who appointed Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court |
| 27% | OBAMA | 5 | President who appointed Kagan and Sotomayor to the Supreme Court |
| 27% | LUSIA | 5 | ___ Harris, former WNBA player who was the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by the NBA |
| 27% | OBAMA | 5 | President who appointed Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to the Supreme Court |
| 27% | CURIE | 5 | Last name of the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and who is credited with the theory of radioactivity |
| 27% | SHIRLEYCHISHOLM | 15 | First Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress |
| 27% | KATHRYN | 7 | With 38-Across, the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar (for "The Hurt Locker") |
| 27% | TONI | 4 | First name of the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 27% | MORRISON | 8 | First Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 27% | HARRIETQUIMBY | 13 | First woman to earn a pilot's license in the United States and the first woman to fly across the English Channel (2 wds.) |
| 26% | ESSENCE | 7 | Magazine with the motto "Where Black Women Come First" |
| 26% | WHERETHE | 8 | With 43-Across, an exciting place, and a hint to the starts of the starred answers |
| 26% | KAMALAHARRIS | 12 | Former California senator who is the first woman and first person of color to be inaugurated as vice president of the United States (2 wds.) |
| 26% | FOILMETHOD | 10 | Technique used to multiply (x+4)(x-5), with the first words of 17-, 25-, 36-, and 44 Across making up its mnemonic |
| 26% | HALLEBERRY | 10 | First Black woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress: 2 wds. |
| 26% | THETIMES | 8 | With 38- and 52-Across, 1964 Bob Dylan song ... or a hint to the answers to this puzzle's starred clues |