| 11
| ELEPHANTMAN |
1980 Black-and-white Film That Was Nominated For Best Picture, With "the" |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 7
| THEHELP |
2011 Film For Which Octavia Spencer Won A Best Supporting Actress Oscar |
| 7
| RAINMAN |
1988 Best Picture Winner Starring Dustin Hoffman |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 10
| RAGINGBULL |
1980 Boxing Film For Which De Niro Won Best Actor |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| LAO |
Language Spoken Along The Mekong |
| 3
| LAO |
People With A Language Of The Same Name |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| ELF |
2003 Film In Which The Title Character Exclaims "son Of A Nutcracker!" |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| USD |
Foreign Exchange Abbr. |
| 3
| LAO |
Language In Which Most Words Are Monosyllabic |
| 3
| ASK |
How Best To Determine Consent |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| UTE |
Shoshonean Language |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| OOO |
Rare Tic-tac-toe Win |
| 3
| LEE |
Film Director ___ Isaac Chung |
| 3
| HER |
Singer With A 2018 Grammy For Best R&b Album |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| ADA |
___ Twist (best-selling Children's Book Character) |
| 3
| MIB |
Will Smith/tommy Lee Jones Film Franchise, For Short |
| 3
| ANT |
"___-man" (paul Rudd Superhero Film) |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| ART |
Word With Fair Or Film |
| 3
| IAM |
"___ America (and So Can You!)" (stephen Colbert Best Seller) |
| 3
| ATM |
Vegas Machine With The Best Odds? |
| 3
| PCS |
Some Best Buy Buys, For Short |
| 3
| EAT |
"people Who Love To ___ Are Always The Best People" Julia Child |
| 3
| OTO |
Siouan Language Speaker |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| ENYA |
Ireland's Best-selling Solo Artist |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| OWEN |
Wilson Of Film |
| 4
| SEES |
Gets The Picture |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| ALEC |
Guinness Of Film |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| THAI |
Language In Which "thank You" Is "khàawp Khun" |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| ELIA |
Kazan Of Film |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| URDU |
Language Of Pakistan |
| 4
| URDU |
Language Of Pakistan's Daily Khabrain |
| 4
| URDU |
Language That Gave Us "pajamas" |
| 4
| ERSE |
Language That's A Letter Off From 26-across |
| 4
| OLIN |
Lena Or Ken Of Film And Tv |
| 4
| ARTY |
Like Many College Film Projects |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| ESPY |
Outstanding Team Award Or Best College Athlete Award |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| JAVA |
Programming Language Named For A Beverage Named For An Island |
| 4
| MPAA |
Org. Featured In The Documentary "this Film Is Not Yet Rated" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ODIN |
Anthony Hopkins's Role In The "thor" Film Franchise |
| 4
| JAWS |
Film With The Line "you're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" |
| 4
| GRAN |
2008 Clint Eastwood Film "___ Torino" |
| 4
| ROOM |
2003 Cult Film Known As The "'citizen Kane' Of Bad Movies," With "the" |
| 4
| ADAM |
Driver Of Film |
| 4
| TRON |
1982 Film Set In A Mainframe |
| 4
| FIFA |
Best-selling Sports Video Game Franchise |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| ELLE |
Fanning Of Film |
| 5
| SONIC |
Video Game Character In A Hit 2020 Film |
| 5
| OLSEN |
Best-selling Crime Novelist Gregg |
| 5
| ACTOR |
Best ___ (academy Awards Category) |
| 5
| FOLEY |
___ Artist (film Professional) |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| INDIE |
Nonstudio Film |
| 5
| FOSSE |
Only Person To Win An Oscar, Emmy And Tony In The Same Year (1973) |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ELMST |
Part Of A Horror Film Address, For Short |
| 5
| BANTU |
Tonal Language Family |
| 5
| ALIEN |
Video Game Franchise Based On A Sci-fi Film Franchise |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| MADRE |
"todo Sobre Mi ___" (1999 Almodóvar Film) |
| 5
| BANTU |
Language Family Of Swahili Or Zulu |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| SLANG |
Sort Of Language Generally Found In Urban Dictionary |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| MADEA |
Title Character In A Tyler Perry Film Franchise |
| 5
| SELMA |
Title City In A 2014 Ava Duvernay Film |
| 5
| ZORBA |
"the Greek" Of Film |
| 5
| ALFIE |
Michael Caine Film |
| 5
| NAOMI |
Klein Who Wrote The Best Seller "this Changes Everything Capitalism Vs. The Climate" |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| WOODY |
Film Character Who Shouts "you Are A Toy!" |
| 5
| BAMBI |
Classic 1942 Film Based On A Book Subtitled "a Life In The Woods" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| HARLEM |
Setting For The 2009 Film "precious" |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| AMELIE |
Title Heroine Of A 2001 French Film |
| 6
| DONNIE |
"___ Darko" (2001 Cult Film) |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ENDEAR |
Win Over |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| GENDER |
One Of Three For German Nouns, Or One Of Four For Those In Africa's Zande Language |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| GETTHIS |
"here's The Best Part ..." |
| 7
| PRAYERS |
What Father Knows Best? |
| 7
| LETITBE |
1970 Music Documentary That Won An Oscar For Best Original Score |
| 7
| ZENDAYA |
Youngest Person To Win The Emmy For Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (2020) |
| 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
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| REXREED |
Film Critic With A Cameo In 1978's "superman" |
| 7
| ALADDIN |
1992 Disney Film With The Ballad "a Whole New World" |
| 7
| AUNTMAY |
Comics-based Film Character Played By Rosemary Harris, Sally Field And Marisa Tomei |
| 7
| FISCHER |
Only Player To Win The U.s. Chess Championship With No Losses Or Draws |
| 7
| ADASTRA |
2019 Space Film |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| STARWARS |
The Better Of Two Major Sci-fi Film Franchises? |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| NERDIEST |
Most Likely To Win At Trivia Night, Maybe |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| CUSSWORD |
Bit Of Foul Language |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| LONCHANEY |
Silent Film Star Known As The "man Of A Thousand Faces" |
| 9
| INVECTIVE |
*harsh Language |
| 9
| MEANSWELL |
Has The Best Intentions |
| 9
| AFRIKAANS |
Language That Gave Us "aardvark" |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| ADULTMOVIE |
Xxx Film |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 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 ..." |
| 12
| CONTEXTISKEY |
"you Have To Look At The Bigger Picture" |
| 13
| STRAPLESSGOWN |
Marilyn Monroe Wore A Fuchsia One While Singing "diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| SHEKILLEDBILL |
2004 Quentin Tarantino Martial Arts Film |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
