3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
3
| AIR |
Big ___ (olympic Snowboarding Event) |
3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
4
| WWII |
Event With V-e Day And V-j Day |
4
| HUNT |
Event With Easter Eggs |
4
| TEST |
Event That May Be Proctored |
4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
4
| EDEN |
First World? |
4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
4
| MEET |
Runners' Event |
4
| CAPS |
Rounds Out, As An Event |
4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
4
| MILE |
Beer ___, Drinking/running Event |
4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
4
| GALA |
Many A Fund-raising Event |
4
| GALA |
Many A Big Charity Event |
5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
5
| SOLAR |
With 41-across, A Celestial Event ... Or A Hint To Four Squares In This Puzzle |
5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
5
| RODEO |
Event With Clowns |
5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
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
| ROAST |
Event For A Comedy Central Special |
5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
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
| XGAMES |
Annual Event With Ski Slopestyle And Skateboard Vert |
6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
6
| ROPING |
Skill Event That Might Follow Barrel Racing |
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
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
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
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
7
| CARSALE |
Event For Moving Vehicles |
7
| TAXSALE |
Post-default Event |
8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
8
| ARMYNAVY |
___ Game, Annual Event On The Second Saturday Of December |
8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
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
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
11
| QUILTINGBEE |
Social Crafting Event |
11
| MEGATSUNAMI |
Catastrophic Weather Event Potentially Caused By A Meteor Crash |
11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
11
| PRIDEPARADE |
Big Outdoor June Event |
11
| WINTERGAMES |
Multiweek Quadrennial Event |
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 |