| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| CEE |
Third Letter In An Alphabet Song |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| ETA |
Greek Letter That Might Follow "z" |
| 3
| TAU |
Letter After Sigma |
| 3
| ELL |
Letter Opener? |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| DOC |
Only Dwarf With A Three-letter Name |
| 3
| PSI |
Pitchfork-shaped Letter |
| 3
| NAE |
When Doubled, A 2010s Dance Fad |
| 3
| NAE |
When Doubled, A 2010s Dance Craze |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| BON |
When Doubled, A Candy |
| 3
| CHA |
When Doubled, A Dance |
| 3
| TOO |
When Doubled, Excessive |
| 3
| HAR |
When Doubled, Sarcastic Laugh |
| 3
| TUT |
When Repeated, An Expression Of Disapproval |
| 3
| ETE |
When To Take A Cruise On La Seine |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| DAY |
Word With Latter Or Red-letter |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| AHA |
You Say It When You "get It" |
| 3
| TEA |
Bags One Might Have When Tired? |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 4
| ZETA |
Greek Letter That One Might Expect To Come Last |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| ZETA |
Letter That's Only 25% Of The Way Through The Greek Alphabet, Surprisingly |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ACTV |
When Lady Macbeth Cries "out, Damned Spot!" |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| IOTA |
Letter After Theta |
| 4
| HINT |
When Doubled, Not-so-subtle Nudge |
| 4
| MAHI |
When Doubled, Hawaiian Food Fish |
| 4
| SHIN |
Hebrew Letter On A Dreidel |
| 4
| ESSE |
Latin Verb That's A Letter Off From 9-down |
| 4
| BANG |
When Doubled, Attention-grabbing |
| 4
| OKRA |
Vegetable That Becomes Gooey When Cooked |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| OSOS |
Animals In Hibernación |
| 4
| CHIN |
Keep This Up When You're Down |
| 4
| JUNE |
When Most Geminis Are Born |
| 4
| YAKS |
Sure-footed Pack Animals |
| 4
| ERSE |
Language That's A Letter Off From 26-across |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| PLEA |
Word That, Fittingly, Contains All Four Different Letters Of Appeal |
| 4
| PINK |
Pop Star Whose Name Is Stylized With An Exclamation Point In Place Of Its Second Letter |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| WELL |
When Said Three Times, "what Have We Here?!" |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 5
| THETA |
Letter Before Iota |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| OSCAR |
Letter Between November And Papa In The Nato Alphabet |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| THETA |
Letter In The Greek Spelling Of Athens |
| 5
| BIORE |
Skin-care Brand With An Accent Over Its Last Letter |
| 5
| FLASK |
Small Container For Carrying A Drink When Away From Home |
| 5
| SEALS |
Marine Animals With Flippers |
| 5
| SORER |
Less Gracious When Losing, Say |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ASSES |
Sure-footed Pack Animals |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| NIGHT |
When Repeated, Call To Someone Going To Bed |
| 5
| ALPHA |
A Greek Letter? |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| ENERO |
When El Día De Los Reyes Is Celebrated |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ATTEN |
When Some Local News Comes On |
| 5
| SLOTH |
Along With The Anteater, One Of Two Animals In The Order Pilosa |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 6
| ATNINE |
When A Prime-time Drama Might Air |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| HEARYE |
When Repeated, Old-time Call To Listen |
| 6
| SPIRAL |
When Preceded By [the Circled Letters], Natural Shape Said To Be Seen In 61-across And 27-down |
| 6
| BADDAY |
When Nothing Goes Right |
| 6
| FIVEPM |
When Many Commutes Begin |
| 6
| ATFIVE |
When Happy Hour Often Begins |
| 6
| SISTER |
When Doubled, Popular 1990s Sitcom Featuring Tia And Tamera Mowry |
| 6
| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| EASEUP |
Become Less Harsh |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| SHADOW |
It's Shortest When The Sun Is Directly Overhead |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| DEEPEN |
Become More Complicated, Say |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| WEEZER |
Band With The Lyrics "when I Was Younger, I Used To Go And Tip Cows For Fun, Yeah / Actually, I Didn't Do That 'cause I Didn't Want The Cow To Be Sad" |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| EOCENE |
Epoch When Palm Trees Grew In Alaska |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| ONSIGHT |
When Viewed |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| AQUATIC |
Like The Five Animals In This Puzzle's Theme |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| SEQUENCE |
When Preceded By [the Circled Letters], Progression Starting With 0 And 1 |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| SPECIALK |
Food Brand Whose Last Letter Is Its Company's Stock Symbol |
| 8
| OHIGETIT |
Line When You're Late To The Punch Line |
| 8
| WEARTHIN |
Become Harder To Bear |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 9
| TETRAPODS |
Four-limbed Animals |
| 9
| EVOLUTION |
Word That Becomes More Dramatic When You Add An "r" In Front |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| SMALLFRIES |
When The Appetizers Were Passed Around, [zap!] The Potato Wedges Turned Into ... |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| MERETRIFLE |
When The Dessert Was Brought Out, [zap!] The Pudding Cake Turned Into A ... |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 12
| MICROSECONDS |
Finally, When The Still-hungry Guests Went Back For More, [zap!] The Additional Helpings Turned Into ... |
| 12
| SILVERLINING |
Upside, When Down |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| FALLINTOPLACE |
Become Clear ... Or Make Like The Object Represented By The Circled Letters |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| ATOMICSUBMARINE |
When The Main Course Was Ready, [zap!] The Six-foot Hoagie Turned Into An ... |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
