| 3
| AKA |
Letters Between Two Names |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 5
| BOISE |
State Capital In The So-called "treasure Valley" |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| PAC |
Campaign Fund-raising Letters |
| 3
| UTE |
Native People For Whom A State Is Named |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| LSD |
Letters That Might Change Your Mind? |
| 3
| STL |
Letters Seen On N.f.l. Scoreboards Between 1995 And 2015 |
| 3
| SPF |
Letters On Some Foundations |
| 3
| VIP |
Letters On A Pass |
| 3
| USA |
Letters On A Forever Stamp |
| 3
| AKA |
Letters Before An Alias |
| 3
| VSO |
Letters On A Bottle Of Brandy |
| 3
| IMO |
Letters Of Qualification |
| 3
| AKA |
Letters Before An Alternate Name |
| 3
| SPF |
Beach Bottle Letters |
| 3
| FYI |
Letters Accompanying A Tip |
| 3
| ZEN |
Kind Of State |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| PGA |
Org. With Clubs, In Two Senses |
| 3
| WAR |
Mindless Two-player Card Game |
| 3
| ALY |
Two-time Olympic Gymnast Raisman |
| 3
| ADA |
Tube Letters |
| 3
| UTE |
People For Whom A State Is Named |
| 3
| OLE |
Two-syllable Cheer |
| 3
| ADD |
Put Two And Two Together, Say |
| 3
| VEE |
Two-finger Victory Sign |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| IND |
State In Which "parks & Recreation" Is Set Abbr. |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| ENT |
Towering Figure In "the Two Towers" |
| 4
| CUBA |
Havana Is Its Capital |
| 4
| OSHA |
Govt. Organization With A Two-syllable Acronym |
| 4
| SIRS |
Francis Drake And Ernest Shackleton, For Two |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| AMES |
Home Of Iowa State |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| PLEA |
Word That, Fittingly, Contains All Four Different Letters Of Appeal |
| 4
| SEGO |
Utah's State Flower |
| 4
| LIMA |
Pacific Coast Capital |
| 4
| RSVP |
Invitation Letters |
| 4
| IKEA |
Store With A Three-syllable Name In Four Letters |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| OMAN |
One Of Two Sultanates In The United Nations |
| 4
| WING |
One Of Two For A Valkyrie's Horse |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| MIDI |
Skirt Length That Ends Midcalf |
| 4
| LOGO |
The One For Starbucks Shows A Two-tailed Mermaid |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| BAYS |
Two In A Two-car Garage |
| 4
| OCTA |
Two Times Quadri- |
| 4
| DIME |
Two-fifths Of A Quarter |
| 4
| RHOS |
Letters After Pis |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| GMCS |
Yukon And Acadia, For Two |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| MANN |
Aimee With Two Grammys |
| 4
| KOBE |
Capital Of Japan's Hyogo Prefecture |
| 4
| SUVA |
Capital Of Fiji |
| 4
| PROM |
Broadway Musical Centered Around Two Girls In Love, With "the" |
| 4
| TRUE |
Being In Accordance With The Actual State Or Conditions |
| 4
| HAZE |
Befuddled State |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ROMA |
Capital Where Natives Say "arrivederci!" |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| DEER |
A Buck Or Two? |
| 5
| TONER |
Step Two In Many Skin-care Routines |
| 5
| FEAST |
*one Of Two Extremes In A Saying |
| 5
| SALEM |
Capital Of Oregon |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| DHAKA |
Capital Of Bangladesh |
| 5
| RABAT |
Capital Near Casablanca |
| 5
| NERDS |
Candy With Two Flavors In One Box |
| 5
| SOFIA |
Bulgaria's Capital |
| 5
| PRNDL |
Letters On A Gearshift |
| 5
| PEABO |
Two-time Grammy Winner Bryson |
| 5
| KHUFU |
Fill In This Answer With Letters From Five Clue Numbers 74, 92, 21, 52, 118 |
| 5
| RIGHT |
Being In Accordance With The Actual State Or Conditions |
| 5
| THREE |
Number Of 101-acrosses In [see Circled Letters] |
| 5
| AISLE |
One Of Two In A 747 |
| 5
| LAPAZ |
South American Capital With The World's Longest Urban Gondola |
| 5
| HEADS |
Two Are Better Than One, They Say |
| 5
| MIAMI |
Only U.s. City Bordered By Two National Parks |
| 5
| LOCHS |
Awe And Tay, For Two |
| 5
| PEONY |
Indiana's State Flower |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| WINES |
Red And Rosé, For Two |
| 5
| SLOTH |
Along With The Anteater, One Of Two Animals In The Order Pilosa |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| OREOS |
Their Name Has The "re" Of "cream" And The Two O's From "chocolate" |
| 5
| LOREN |
Sophia Of "two Women" |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ASIAN |
Like Almost Two-thirds Of The Earth's Population |
| 5
| VISAS |
H-1b And B-1, For Two |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| KENYA |
Home Country Of The Two-time Olympic Marathon Winner Eliud Kipchoge |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| HESSE |
German State That Includes Frankfurt |
| 5
| LAYUP |
Easy Two-pointer |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| UNEASE |
Disquieted State |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| BRUNEI |
One Of Two Sultanates In The United Nations |
| 6
| THRALL |
State Of Subjugation |
| 6
| HELENA |
Montana's Capital |
| 6
| PROPER |
Being In Accordance With The Actual State Or Conditions |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| FAMINE |
*one Of Two Extremes In A Saying |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Europe's Oldest Capital |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| BATMEN |
Christian Bale And Val Kilmer, For Two |
| 6
| PAGODA |
Place Of Worship Whose Third, Fourth And Fifth Letters Are Appropriate |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| PAPACY |
Institution Roughly Two Millennia Old |
| 6
| ANTONY |
___ Blinken, Biden's Secretary Of State |
| 6
| THEISM |
Capital-b Belief |
| 6
| ENMITY |
Hostile State |
| 6
| FTYPES |
Jaguar Two-seaters Starting In 2013 |
| 6
| SPIRAL |
When Preceded By [the Circled Letters], Natural Shape Said To Be Seen In 61-across And 27-down |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| SKOPJE |
Capital Of North Macedonia |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 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
| REPEAT |
What Two Sets Of Dots Within Double Lines Indicate, In Musical Scores |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| PICKUP |
Learn, As A New Skill ... Or What Can Precede The Ends Of 20-, 36-, 42- And 59-across |
| 6
| HAVANA |
Capital Of Cuba |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| CHINESE |
With 43-across, Historical Period Found In Each Set Of Circled Letters |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| PARTING |
With 58-across, What This Puzzle's Circled Letters Are ... Or What They're Doing |
| 7
| PITSAWS |
Two-person Log Cutters |
| 7
| NEVADAN |
In-state Attendee Of Great Basin College, E.g. |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| PRECISE |
Being In Accordance With The Actual State Or Conditions |
| 7
| LONDRES |
La Capital De Inglaterra |
| 7
| LEGUMES |
Chickpeas And Peanuts, For Two |
| 7
| ISFAHAN |
Capital Of Ancient Persia |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| ALABAMA |
Home Of Gulf State Park |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| LATESHOW |
It Ends After Midnight In New York, With "the" |
| 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
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| PARAGUAY |
Country With Two Official Languages - Guaraní And Spanish |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| LIMABEAN |
Food Named For A World Capital (but Pronounced Differently) |
| 8
| QUEENBED |
One Of Two "royal" Sleeping Options |
| 8
| STARWARS |
The Better Of Two Major Sci-fi Film Franchises? |
| 8
| PENNAMES |
George Eliot And George Orwell, For Two |
| 8
| ACCURATE |
Being In Accordance With The Actual State Or Conditions |
| 8
| OTTAWANS |
Residents Of Canada's Capital |
| 9
| AKRONOHIO |
City Nicknamed "rubber Capital Of The World" |
| 9
| MCDOUBLES |
Two-patty Burgers Introduced In 1997 |
| 9
| SECLUSION |
Act Or Instance Of Separating Or The State Of Being Separated |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| LOOSEENDS |
Unresolved Details ... And A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 9
| KISSIMMEE |
Florida City Whose Name Has Three Pairs Of Doubled Letters |
| 9
| BORNTORUN |
New Jersey's "unofficial Rock Theme Of Our State's Youth" |
| 9
| LIMESTONE |
Approximately 5.5 Million Tons Of It Was Used To Build [see Circled Letters] |
| 10
| GUTFEELING |
Intuition Without Logical Explanation, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 10
| WATERSLIDE |
It Ends With A Big Splash |
| 10
| VIDEOGAMES |
Fortnite And The Legend Of Zelda, For Two |
| 10
| HOLDMYBEER |
Comment Before A Stupid Stunt ... Or A Hint To The Ends Of 17-, 25-, 36- And 50-across |
| 10
| QUARANTINE |
Act Or Instance Of Separating Or The State Of Being Separated |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| SEPARATION |
Act Or Instance Of Separating Or The State Of Being Separated |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 11
| WINNIPEGGER |
Resident Of The Capital Of Manitoba |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 11
| GOLDENRATIO |
Numerical Constant Associated With [the Circled Letters] |
| 12
| SEVENWONDERS |
With 51-across And 15-down, Group In Which [see Circled Letters] Is The Only One Still Largely Intact |
| 12
| BACKUPSINGER |
One Helping In A Band ... Or What Can Be Found In Each Set Of Circled Letters? |
| 13
| FALLINTOPLACE |
Become Clear ... Or Make Like The Object Represented By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| NAMEOFTHEGAME |
Something's Essential Aspect ... Or What's Spelled Out By Letters In This Puzzle's Eight "cups" |
| 13
| PATHTOVICTORY |
Election Night Calculation ... Or What's Traced By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| BITTERENEMIES |
Hamilton And Burr, For Two |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN |
Thoroughly ... Or A Hint For Parsing Some Lowercase Letters In Four Of This Puzzle's Clues |
