| 3
| RYE |
City On The New York/connecticut Border |
| 4
| ROME |
New York City |
| 4
| YANG |
Andrew Who Ran For President And Mayor Of New York City |
| 4
| SARA |
New York City's ___ Delano Roosevelt Park |
| 5
| UTICA |
Upstate New York City |
| 6
| ELMIRA |
New York City Where Mark Twain Is Buried |
| 6
| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 3
| RYE |
New York Town That's Home To Playland Amusement Park |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| MAGS |
New York, Chicago And Los Angeles, In Brief |
| 4
| LAKE |
Artificial Feature In New York's Central Park |
| 5
| LEEDS |
City Sw Of York |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 8
| LATESHOW |
It Ends After Midnight In New York, With "the" |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 4
| ARCH |
Principal |
| 8
| EDUCATES |
Schools |
| 3
| CDC |
U.s. Public Health Org. |
| 3
| CST |
Winter Hrs. In New Orleans |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| AIR |
Go Public With |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| SIM |
Virtual City Dweller |
| 3
| CHI |
___-town (windy City) |
| 3
| CHI |
Ho ___ Minh City |
| 3
| UTE |
Salt Lake City Collegian |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| DAD |
Tv's "american ___" |
| 3
| HEN |
Farm Female |
| 3
| HEN |
Female Salmon |
| 3
| IAN |
Writer Fleming |
| 3
| IAN |
___ Fleming, British Naval Intelligence Officer-turned-writer |
| 3
| SAL |
Educator Khan Who Founded Khan Academy |
| 3
| DOE |
Female Deer |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| CDC |
U.s. Public Health Agcy. |
| 3
| CDC |
Public Health Agcy. |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| CTA |
Windy City Rail System, In Brief |
| 3
| SAM |
___ Taylor-johnson, Director Of "fifty Shades Of Grey" |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 4
| CHAD |
Landlocked African Country |
| 4
| MENA |
Suvari Of "american Pie" |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| RENO |
Nevada's Third-largest City |
| 4
| RENO |
Final Fantasy Character Who Shares His Name With A U.s. City |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| UTAH |
Home Of Salt Lake City |
| 4
| TORY |
Boris Johnson, E.g. |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| AREA |
Algeria Has The Largest One Among African Countries |
| 4
| GODS |
"american ___" (neil Gaiman Novel That Won The Hugo And Nebula) |
| 4
| YANK |
American, Abroad |
| 4
| LYON |
City On The Rhône |
| 4
| AGRA |
Taj Mahal City |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| ENID |
Oklahoma City Named For A Camelot Woman |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| IONA |
College In New Rochelle, N.y. |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| GRID |
Many A City Street Layout |
| 4
| JODI |
Writer Picoult With The 2021 Novel "wish You Were Here" |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| ANNE |
"bird By Bird" Writer Lamott |
| 4
| MESA |
Largest City In The U.s. That's Not A County Seat |
| 4
| NOHO |
Home Of N.y.c.'s Public Theater |
| 4
| HERA |
Female Olympian Of Note |
| 4
| NEON |
Like The Radio City Music Hall Sign |
| 4
| BAUM |
"the Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" Writer |
| 4
| HERA |
Female Figure In The "iliad" |
| 4
| YALE |
New Haven Alma Mater Of Five Presidents |
| 5
| VILLE |
Common City Name Ending |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| BASRA |
Iraqi Port City |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| OATES |
Writer Joyce Carol ___ |
| 5
| ALAIN |
Harlem Renaissance Writer Locke |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| PETRA |
Jordanian Landmark Described As "a Rose-red City Half As Old As Time" |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| FARGO |
Largest City In North Dakota |
| 5
| SCROD |
New England Seafood Staple |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| PERTH |
Australia's "city Of Light" |
| 5
| LAPAZ |
South American Capital With The World's Longest Urban Gondola |
| 5
| OCALA |
Florida City In The Middle Of "horse Country" |
| 5
| ALLAN |
Writer Edgar ___ Poe |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ANAIS |
Writer Nin |
| 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
| EXURB |
Community Far From A City's Center |
| 5
| MIAMI |
Only U.s. City Bordered By Two National Parks |
| 5
| SELMA |
Title City In A 2014 Ava Duvernay Film |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| NAJAF |
Holy City Near Baghdad |
| 5
| ALOHA |
Pearl City Greeting |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| JAKES |
"north And South" Writer John |
| 5
| ELAND |
African Antelope |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| OCTET |
The Ivy League Schools, E.g. |
| 5
| COSMO |
Cocktail Favored By Carrie Bradshaw On "sex And The City" |
| 5
| PARMA |
Italian Cheese City |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| NOWRUZ |
Iranian New Year, Celebrated On March 21, 2022 |
| 6
| SOLLAL |
Korean New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| TSETSE |
Tropical African Fly |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| PICKUP |
Learn, As A New Skill ... Or What Can Precede The Ends Of 20-, 36-, 42- And 59-across |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| EDUARD |
Russian Writer And Dissident Limonov |
| 6
| ALEPPO |
Syrian City With A Historic Citadel |
| 6
| BILOXI |
Mississippi City On The Gulf Of Mexico |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| FRESNO |
Largest Inland City In California |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| MIDWEST |
Home Of Many Schools In The Big Ten Conference |
| 7
| FORTLEE |
Northern New Jersey Town |
| 7
| DORITOS |
Chips Brand Whose "cool Ranch" Flavor Is Called "cool American" In Europe |
| 7
| STRIKER |
One Seeking A New Agreement, Perhaps |
| 7
| ALADDIN |
1992 Disney Film With The Ballad "a Whole New World" |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| BIGEASY |
Nickname For New Orleans, Celebrated By The Answers To The Starred Clues And Suggested By The Shaded Squares |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| ANGELENO |
Resident Of The U.s.'s Second-largest City |
| 8
| MISSOULA |
University Of Montana City |
| 8
| SONGKRAN |
Thai New Year, Celebrated On April 13, 2022 |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| AKRONOHIO |
City Nicknamed "rubber Capital Of The World" |
| 9
| GRANTWOOD |
"american Gothic" Artist |
| 9
| KISSIMMEE |
Florida City Whose Name Has Three Pairs Of Doubled Letters |
| 9
| ALONETIME |
It's Usually In Short Supply For New Parents |
| 9
| UMMACHINE |
What A Nervous Public Speaker Sounds Like? |
| 9
| BORNTORUN |
New Jersey's "unofficial Rock Theme Of Our State's Youth" |
| 9
| CARYATIDS |
Architectural Columns In The Form Of Sculpted Female Figures |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| CHINCHILLA |
South American Rodent With Soft, Dense Fur |
| 11
| LAREDOTEXAS |
Southern Border City In A Larry Mcmurtry Title |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 12
| MONACOMONACO |
Grand Prix City |
| 12
| ROMATOMATOES |
Garden Produce Named For An Italian City |
| 12
| LITTLEDIPPER |
At The Party Where The Scientist Was Demonstrating Her New Shrink Ray, [zap!] The Punch Ladle Turned Into A ... |
| 12
| ROSHHASHANAH |
Jewish New Year, Celebrated On Sept. 25, 2022 |
| 14
| SPRINGFESTIVAL |
Chinese New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
