| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| RIO |
2016 Olympics Host, Informally |
| 3
| DIS |
Insult, Informally |
| 3
| DJS |
Club Workers, Informally |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| SIS |
Beyoncé, To Solange, Informally |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| CAM |
Auto Shaft, Informally |
| 3
| MAV |
Dallas Player, Informally |
| 3
| MIA |
Nowhere To Be Found, Informally |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| ONE |
Out Of Gas, Informally |
| 3
| MCS |
Hosts, Informally |
| 3
| PEC |
Poppable Muscle, Informally |
| 3
| SEC |
Instant, Informally |
| 3
| ERG |
Rowing Machine, Informally |
| 3
| REN |
___ Faire (historical Festival, Informally) |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| SIA |
"chandelier" Singer, 2014 |
| 3
| SUB |
Vessel With A Hatch, Informally |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| SVU |
Show On Which Mariska Hargitay Stars As Olivia Benson, Informally |
| 3
| JLO |
"hustlers" Co-star, Informally |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| FEDS |
Graduates Of Quantico, Informally |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| ALUM |
Homecoming Guest, Informally |
| 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
| SESH |
Meeting, Informally |
| 4
| PERF |
Ideal, Informally |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| FROS |
Styles That Are Picked, Informally |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| ALTS |
Secondary Social Media Accounts, Informally |
| 4
| ALUM |
School Reunion Attendee, Informally |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| NOLA |
Pelicans' Home, Informally |
| 4
| DOCS |
Nonfiction Films, Informally |
| 4
| ALFA |
Italian Car, Informally |
| 4
| TURK |
Native Of The Country Whose National Sport Is Oil Wrestling |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| ECIG |
Juul, E.g., Informally |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| JOSE |
Filipino National Hero ___ Rizal |
| 4
| DJED |
Worked A Reception, Say, Informally |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| STAN |
Devotee, Informally |
| 4
| POLS |
Capitol Insiders, Informally |
| 4
| IDED |
Carded, Informally |
| 4
| PSAT |
Exam That Qualifies One For A National Merit Scholarship |
| 4
| KETO |
Certain High-fat, Low-carb Diet, Informally |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| INDY |
Annual Memorial Day Race, Informally |
| 4
| AMMO |
Contents Of Some Belts, Informally |
| 4
| MAVS |
Dallas Basketball Squad, Informally |
| 4
| EXEC |
Board Figure, Informally |
| 4
| PITT |
A.c.c. Team, Informally |
| 4
| HEMI |
Engine Type, Informally |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 5
| NEWTS |
Some Members Of The Family Salamandridae |
| 5
| RASTA |
One Who Might Smoke Ganja As A Sacrament, Informally |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| DELTS |
Muscles Strengthened By Push-ups, Informally |
| 5
| AVLAB |
Where A High School Yearbook Club May Meet, Informally |
| 5
| ROSES |
National Floral Emblems Of The U.s. |
| 5
| LOOIE |
West Point Grad, Informally |
| 5
| SELMA |
Title City In A 2014 Ava Duvernay Film |
| 5
| IMGAY |
Announcement On National Coming Out Day |
| 5
| CANON |
Officially Accepted Works |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| EGRET |
Symbol Of The National Audubon Society |
| 5
| SORTA |
Somewhat, Informally |
| 5
| MIAMI |
Only U.s. City Bordered By Two National Parks |
| 5
| ECHOS |
Amazon Speakers Introduced In 2014 |
| 5
| INSTA |
Pic-sharing App, Informally |
| 5
| ULTRA |
Plus ___ (spain's National Motto) |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| BEGIN |
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
| ALUMS |
Reunion Attendees, Informally |
| 5
| ADBIZ |
"mad Men" Milieu, Informally |
| 5
| GITMO |
Setting For "a Few Good Men," Informally |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| OHARA |
Kelley Of The U.s. Women's National Soccer Team |
| 5
| BOGIE |
Bacall's Partner In A Classic Hollywood Romance, Informally |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| FRATS |
Groups Of Greeks, Informally |
| 5
| REYNA |
Claudio Or Gio, Father-and-son Players For The U.s. Men's National Soccer Team |
| 5
| RASTA |
Certain Pan-africanist, Informally |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| RASTA |
Devotee Of Haile Selassie, Informally |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| OOMPH |
Energy, Informally |
| 5
| ADBIZ |
Field Of "mad Men," Informally |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| THEMAN |
Symbol Of Authority, Informally |
| 6
| BADRAP |
Undeserved Criticism, Informally |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| SPARKY |
Dalmatian Mascot Of The National Fire Protection Association |
| 6
| GLOWUP |
Age Beautifully, Informally |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| ITTEAM |
Company Computer Fixers, Informally |
| 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
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| ENBIES |
Nonbinary People, Informally |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| COULDA |
Might Have, Informally |
| 6
| ALLIES |
Nato Members, E.g. |
| 6
| GAYLIB |
Movement That Began With Stonewall, Informally |
| 6
| BADREP |
Issue With Image Quality, Informally? |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| ATLASES |
National Geographic Books? |
| 7
| AZALEAS |
Flowering Plants Associated With The Augusta National Golf Course |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| HALFASS |
Not Full, As An Effort, Informally |
| 7
| PECLASS |
Place To Play Dodgeball, Informally |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| BEGATHON |
Shameless Fund-raising Drive, Informally |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| STEPSONS |
Some Members Of A Blended Family |
| 9
| BEARSEARS |
Utah National Monument Called Shash Jaa' In Navajo |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 10
| POTTERMORE |
2010s Fansite Craze Whose Members Joined Hogwarts Houses |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| PUMPEDIRON |
Lifted Weights, Informally |
| 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 |
| 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 |
