| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 4
| HIKE |
Up |
| 5
| BUILT |
Put Up |
| 5
| ATBAT |
Up |
| 5
| STAND |
Put Up With |
| 3
| AMP |
Rev (up) |
| 3
| ASH |
Something Picked Up By A Silent Butler |
| 3
| ERR |
Slip Up |
| 3
| TRY |
Don't Give Up |
| 3
| TOG |
Dress (up) |
| 3
| TOG |
Dress (up), Quaintly |
| 3
| TAN |
Shoe Hue |
| 3
| REV |
Fire (up) |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| ERR |
Goof Up |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| ATE |
Gobbled Up |
| 3
| EMU |
Bird That Can Sprint Up To 30 M.p.h. |
| 3
| AGE |
Grow Up |
| 3
| ROB |
Hold Up |
| 3
| HOE |
It Might Turn Up A Plot |
| 3
| ARC |
Path Of A Pop-up |
| 3
| COP |
Own Up (to) |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| CPU |
Brains Of A Tech Start-up? |
| 3
| SEW |
Finish, With "up" |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| STU |
"the Hangover" Character Who Wakes Up With A Missing Tooth |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| SEND |
What An Up Arrow Might Mean |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| AMPS |
Hypes (up) |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| MAUL |
Rough Up |
| 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
| JLAW |
"don't Look Up" Star, In Tabloids |
| 4
| DEUS |
"___ Creator Omnium" (ancient Hymn) |
| 4
| EDIT |
Touch Up Before Publication |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| LENA |
"girls" Creator Dunham |
| 4
| PACE |
What's Picked Up In A Hurry? |
| 4
| RILE |
Provoke, With "up" |
| 4
| CEDE |
Give Up, As Land |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| CEDE |
Give Up |
| 4
| NOVA |
Flare Up? |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| ULNA |
It Runs Up The Arm |
| 4
| KANE |
Bob ___, Co-creator Of Batman |
| 4
| FESS |
Admit, With "up" |
| 4
| BUSY |
Tied Up |
| 4
| TOMS |
Casual Shoe Brand |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| EVEN |
Squared Up |
| 4
| MVPS |
Certain Athletic Honorees, For Short |
| 4
| ANTE |
Pay (up) |
| 4
| ACNE |
Something You May Want To Clear Up |
| 4
| CHIN |
Keep This Up When You're Down |
| 4
| ROBE |
Judicial Cover-up? |
| 4
| SPAS |
Places To Relax While Getting All Steamed Up? |
| 4
| TARP |
Cover Up In A Shower |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| EYED |
Sized Up |
| 4
| ANDY |
Name On Woody's Shoe In "toy Story" |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| SHOD |
Booted Up, Say? |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| FLUBS |
Messes Up |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| ERRED |
Messed Up |
| 5
| LASTS |
Holds Up |
| 5
| SYNCS |
Matches Up |
| 5
| EXALT |
Lift Up |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| MOVIN |
"___ On Up" ("the Jeffersons" Theme) |
| 5
| TIETO |
Hook Up With |
| 5
| SENSE |
Pick Up |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| CSPAN |
It Has Cameras Set Up Around The House |
| 5
| INBOX |
It May Fill Up During A Vacation |
| 5
| ETHER |
Air Up There |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| RISEN |
Up Now |
| 5
| PANDA |
An Adult One Can Spend Up To 16 Hours A Day Eating |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| UNITE |
Team Up |
| 5
| ASTIR |
Up And About |
| 5
| STAIR |
Step Up, Perhaps |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| DEFOG |
Clear Up, As Ski Goggles |
| 5
| TOTAL |
Add Up To |
| 5
| ARISE |
Come Up, As Issues |
| 5
| LAUGH |
Crack Up |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| ALOFT |
Up In The Air |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| DRAMA |
What Gossipy People Love To Stir Up |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ANTES |
Puts Up |
| 5
| EXITS |
Ramps Up Or Down? |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| INTRO |
Emcee's Warm-up |
| 5
| ILIKE |
"thumbs Up From Me!" |
| 5
| OUTDO |
One-up |
| 6
| ONELAP |
Up And Back, In A Pool |
| 6
| ASTLEY |
Rick Who Sang "never Gonna Give You Up" |
| 6
| ZIPSIT |
Shuts Up |
| 6
| ADORNS |
Pretties Up |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| SIPHON |
Suck Up, In A Way |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| REHEMS |
Takes Up Or Lets Down, Say |
| 6
| GEARED |
Prepared, With "up" |
| 6
| ASHORE |
Where Flotsam And Jetsam May End Up |
| 6
| MOORED |
Tied Up, As A Ship |
| 6
| OPENER |
Warm-up Act |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| BROGAN |
Heavy Shoe |
| 6
| CTSCAN |
X-ray Follow-up, Perhaps |
| 6
| FESSED |
Admitted It, With "up" |
| 6
| ASLANT |
Not Straight Up |
| 6
| EMERGE |
Crop Up |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 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
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| SHINNY |
Climb (up) |
| 6
| ORWELL |
Big Brother's Creator |
| 6
| HAHAHA |
"you Crack Me Up!" |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| SPICED |
Livened (up) |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| TEASET |
China Makes Up Much Of It |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| YODUDE |
"what's Up, My Man?!" |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| PHLEGMY |
Stuffed Up, In A Way |
| 7
| LEARNED |
Picked Up |
| 7
| HOTDATE |
Reason To Get Gussied Up |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| AROUSED |
Stirred Up |
| 7
| ELTRAIN |
What's Going Up In Chicago? |
| 7
| ARRIVES |
Shows Up |
| 7
| SEESAWS |
They Go Up And Down On A Playground |
| 7
| DUSTPAN |
Things Might Get Swept Up In It |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| INCITES |
Stirs Up |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| TOFOLLOW |
Coming Up Next |
| 8
| STILETTO |
Shoe Sometimes Called A "spike Heel" |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| PETSTORE |
Place To Pick Up Litter? |
| 8
| SWITCHON |
Power Up |
| 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
| GLAMOROUS |
All Made Up, Perhaps |
| 9
| LOSEFAITH |
Give Up |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| ALLIGATOR |
Animal That Can Grow Up To 3,000 Teeth In Its Lifetime |
| 9
| TORTILLAS |
They Wrap Things Up |
| 9
| CLAUDETTE |
___ Colvin, Civil Rights Pioneer Who Refused To Give Up Her Seat On A Segregated Bus Nine Months Before Rosa Parks |
| 9
| SUPERSIZE |
Blow Up |
| 10
| GREASEFIRE |
Kitchen Flare-up |
| 10
| BONUSROUND |
Opportunity To Rack Up Extra Points, Perhaps |
| 10
| NEWSWORTHY |
Fit For A Big Write-up, Say |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 11
| PAJAMAPARTY |
Occasion For Kids To Stay Up Late |
| 12
| RISEANDSHINE |
"wake Up, Sleepyhead!" |
| 13
| CAMETONOTHING |
"then My Friend Set Me Up With A Recluse, But He ..." |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| WINDOWCLEANER |
It Might Help Clear Things Up |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| XYLOPHONEMALLET |
What Can Strike Up A Tune? |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 15
| PHOTOSYNTHESIZE |
Soak Up The Sun, Say |