| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| GERRY |
___ And The Pacemakers (1960s Pop Group) |
| 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 |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 2
| DO |
To Perform |
| 3
| ARE |
Be With A Group? |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 5
| ENACT |
To Perform |
| 6
| FINISH |
To Perform |
| 7
| EXECUTE |
To Perform |
| 9
| CARRY OUT |
To Perform |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| ORA |
Pop Star Rita |
| 3
| RNC |
Fund-raising Group For The G.o.p. |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| GAM |
Group Of Whales |
| 3
| SBA |
Lender To A Mom-and-pop Shop Abbr. |
| 3
| HAN |
China's Largest Ethnic Group |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| ACT |
Part Of A Play Group? |
| 3
| NHL |
Blues Group, For Short? |
| 3
| AVA |
Pop Singer ___ Max |
| 3
| ARC |
Path Of A Pop-up |
| 3
| ROE |
Preschool Group? |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| BTS |
"dynamite" K-pop Band |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| ABBA |
Group With The Tribute Band Björn Again |
| 4
| ABBA |
Group Whose Logo Is A Mirror Ambigram |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| BAHA |
___ Men ("who Let The Dogs Out" Group) |
| 4
| ELLA |
___ Chen, Member Of The Girl Group S.h.e. |
| 4
| PINK |
Pop Star Whose Name Is Stylized With An Exclamation Point In Place Of Its Second Letter |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| HERD |
Driven Group |
| 4
| SADD |
Campus Anti-d.u.i. Group |
| 4
| MANN |
Aimee With Two Grammys |
| 4
| GAGA |
Pop Singer Lady ___ |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| CAST |
Play Group |
| 4
| ARMY |
Large Group Of Ants |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| FRAT |
Campus Group |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| ADAM |
Levine Of Pop Music |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| CLAN |
Close-knit Group |
| 4
| SECT |
Splinter Group |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| CHOIR |
Singing Group Often In Robes |
| 5
| HIALL |
Group Email Greeting |
| 5
| MENSA |
High-i.q. Group |
| 5
| BUNCH |
Grape Group |
| 5
| ALIST |
Select Group Of Celebs |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| TROOP |
Apt Rhyme For "group" |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 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
| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| FAROES |
North Atlantic Island Group |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| SHERPA |
Tibetan Ethnic Group |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| AVCLUB |
Pop Culture Site Created As A Supplement To The Onion |
| 6
| DERULO |
Pop Singer Jason |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ZODIAC |
Group Of Signs |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| MMMBOP |
1997 Pop Hit With A Nonsensical Refrain |
| 7
| RATPACK |
Bishop's Group |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| OPERATE |
Perform Surgery |
| 7
| TEAMUSA |
Olympic Group With A Red, White And Blue Insignia |
| 7
| MADONNA |
One-named Singer Called The "queen Of Pop" |
| 7
| ESOBESO |
1962 Pop Hit With A Rhyming Title |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| AIRCREW |
United Group, E.g. |
| 7
| RETINUE |
Group Of Followers |
| 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 |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| THEMAFIA |
Soprano's Group |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 9
| DAVECLARK |
British Pop Star With More "ed Sullivan Show" Appearances Than The Beatles |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| SHIRELLES |
"will You Love Me Tomorrow" Group, With "the" |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 11
| STARCLUSTER |
Rust + Scarlet = Celestial Group |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 11
| MARINECORPS |
Pear + Crimson = Fighting Group |
| 11
| PAROLEBOARD |
Group Of Commuters? |
| 12
| PLAYERSUNION |
Labor Group For Athletes |
| 12
| CUDDLEPUDDLE |
Horizontal Group Hug Session |
| 12
| SEVENWONDERS |
With 51-across And 15-down, Group In Which [see Circled Letters] Is The Only One Still Largely Intact |
| 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 |
