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| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
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| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
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| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
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| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
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| EEN |
Still, For A Poet |
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| ORB |
Poet's Sphere |
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| ERE |
Poet's "before" |
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| ODE |
Poet Amanda Gorman's "___ To Our Ocean" |
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| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
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| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
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| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
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| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
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| EDEN |
First World? |
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| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
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| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
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| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
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| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
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| INES |
Mexican Poet Juana ___ De La Cruz |
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| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
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| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
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| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
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| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
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| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
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| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
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| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
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| EDNA |
Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay |
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| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
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| LIAR |
"a Warehouse Of Facts, With Poet And ___ In Joint Ownership" ("the Devil's Dictionary" Definition For "imagination") |
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| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
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| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
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| NEAL |
Beat Poet Cassady |
| 4
| ARSE |
Behind, In England |
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| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
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| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
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| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| ATTAR |
Sufi Poet Thought To Have Coined The Adage Found At The Starts Of 19-, 27-, 45- And 52-across |
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| TRACY |
___ K. Smith, Poet Who Won A Pulitzer For "life On Mars" |
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| SCROD |
New England Seafood Staple |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| ESSEX |
One Of England's So-called "home Counties" |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| ODIST |
Poet Who's Full Of Praise |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
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| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
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| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
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| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
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| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
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| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
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| NERUDA |
Poet Who Wrote "love Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long" |
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| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
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| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| WORDSWORTH |
Poet William Who Wrote "the Prelude" |
| 10
| AUDRELORDE |
"sister Outsider" Essayist/poet |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
