| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 4
| EASE |
Facility |
| 3
| CTR |
Municipal Facility Abbr. |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| ETA |
Greek Letter That Might Follow "z" |
| 3
| TAU |
Letter After Sigma |
| 3
| ELL |
Letter Opener? |
| 3
| DOC |
Only Dwarf With A Three-letter Name |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| WIG |
Clown Accessory That's Often Bright Red |
| 3
| IRS |
Org. Often Impersonated By Phone Scammers |
| 3
| PSI |
Pitchfork-shaped Letter |
| 3
| RYE |
Seeded Loaf, Often |
| 3
| CEE |
Third Letter In An Alphabet Song |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| NOT |
Word Often Contracted In Contractions |
| 3
| VIN |
Diesel Often Found In A Muscle Car |
| 3
| DAY |
Word With Latter Or Red-letter |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| LIE |
"thanks, It's Just What I've Always Wanted," Often |
| 4
| PINK |
Pop Star Whose Name Is Stylized With An Exclamation Point In Place Of Its Second Letter |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| SUED |
Like Discriminatory Employers, Often |
| 4
| BIBB |
Lettuce Often Used In Lettuce Wraps |
| 4
| ZETA |
Letter That's Only 25% Of The Way Through The Greek Alphabet, Surprisingly |
| 4
| WINE |
Beverage Often Stored In A Cellar |
| 4
| SLIT |
Pupil Of A Cat's Eye, Often |
| 4
| BIOS |
They Often Appear By Thumbnails |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| ESSE |
Latin Verb That's A Letter Off From 9-down |
| 4
| IOTA |
Letter After Theta |
| 4
| OILY |
Like Garage Floors, Often |
| 4
| ISIS |
Goddess Often Depicted Holding A Staff Of Papyrus |
| 4
| ERSE |
Language That's A Letter Off From 26-across |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ZETA |
Greek Letter That One Might Expect To Come Last |
| 4
| SHIN |
Hebrew Letter On A Dreidel |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 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
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| SEND |
Button Often Denoted By A Right Arrow |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| GRAD |
One Being Asked For Donations, Often |
| 4
| USER |
Fee Payer, Often |
| 4
| TOTE |
Promotional Gift, Often |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| ARIA |
Number That's Often In Italian |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| OREO |
Cookie Often Dipped In Milk |
| 4
| ZITI |
Pasta That's Often Baked |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| OGRE |
Monster Often Seen Wielding A Club |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| KEEPS |
It's Often Played For |
| 5
| HIKER |
One Often Seen Wearing Boots With Shorts |
| 5
| THETA |
Letter Before Iota |
| 5
| THETA |
Letter In The Greek Spelling Of Athens |
| 5
| ALEXA |
Name Often Called In A Smart Home |
| 5
| FINED |
Like Speeders, Often |
| 5
| OSCAR |
Letter Between November And Papa In The Nato Alphabet |
| 5
| CHOIR |
Singing Group Often In Robes |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| ALPHA |
A Greek Letter? |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| SHEET |
What's Often Kept Undercover? |
| 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
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| BIORE |
Skin-care Brand With An Accent Over Its Last Letter |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| REMIX |
Club Version Of A Song, Often |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 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
| LEAPON |
Mount With Facility |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ATFIVE |
When Happy Hour Often Begins |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 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
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 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
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| ICEDTEA |
It's Often Made Hot And Served Cold |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| IBEFOREE |
Rule That's Often Broken |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| SPECIALK |
Food Brand Whose Last Letter Is Its Company's Stock Symbol |
| 8
| WHITELIE |
"we'll Be In Touch!," Often |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| BIBIMBAP |
Korean Rice Dish Often Served In A Hot Stone Bowl |
| 8
| CALLDESK |
I.t. Help Center, Often |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| MANHATTAN |
Cocktail Often Made With Tennessee Whiskey, Ironically |
| 9
| BARECHEST |
Something Often Seen With Trunks |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| NONAPOLOGY |
" It Was Not My Intention To Make Anyone Upset," Often |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| ACEPITCHER |
Starter On The Mound, Often |
| 10
| CANTALOUPE |
Fruit Often Served In Ball Form |
| 10
| TVREPORTER |
One With News To Share, Often |
| 10
| PASTASAUCE |
It's Often Found On Bow Ties |
| 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 ..." |
| 12
| EXPANDEDROLE |
Greater Responsibility, Often As Part Of A Promotion |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| HANDSANITIZER |
Product Often Advertising 99.99% Effectiveness |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
