| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 3
| RYE |
City On The New York/connecticut Border |
| 3
| RYE |
New York Town That's Home To Playland Amusement Park |
| 4
| LAKE |
Artificial Feature In New York's Central Park |
| 4
| ROME |
New York City |
| 4
| SARA |
New York City's ___ Delano Roosevelt Park |
| 4
| MAGS |
New York, Chicago And Los Angeles, In Brief |
| 4
| YANG |
Andrew Who Ran For President And Mayor Of New York City |
| 5
| UTICA |
Upstate New York City |
| 6
| ELMIRA |
New York City Where Mark Twain Is Buried |
| 8
| LATESHOW |
It Ends After Midnight In New York, With "the" |
| 9
| TRAPDOORS |
Secret Exits Represented Five Times In This Puzzle's Grid |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| SIC |
Editor's Bracketed Disclaimer |
| 3
| IDS |
Bar Necessities, At Times |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| CST |
Winter Hrs. In New Orleans |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| UPS |
Boom Times |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 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
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| SUSS |
Puzzle (out) |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| YALE |
New Haven Alma Mater Of Five Presidents |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| TRIO |
The Constructors Of This Puzzle, E.g. |
| 4
| AXLE |
Toll Unit, At Times |
| 4
| OCTA |
Two Times Quadri- |
| 4
| WELL |
When Said Three Times, "what Have We Here?!" |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| STET |
Editor's "forget I Wrote That" |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| IONA |
College In New Rochelle, N.y. |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| WYNNE |
Arthur Who Invented The Crossword Puzzle (1913) |
| 5
| MORNS |
Early Times In Verse |
| 5
| SCROD |
New England Seafood Staple |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| REBUS |
Puzzle Type With Pictures |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| PIKES |
Spearlike Weapons Of Medieval Times |
| 5
| COINS |
What Might Strike You While Solving This Puzzle |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| KINGS |
With 101-across, Where This Puzzle's Enclosed Answer Is Located |
| 5
| SOLAR |
With 41-across, A Celestial Event ... Or A Hint To Four Squares In This Puzzle |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| LEEDS |
City Sw Of York |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 6
| MAGNET |
Object Represented Visually Twice In This Puzzle |
| 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
| PICKUP |
Learn, As A New Skill ... Or What Can Precede The Ends Of 20-, 36-, 42- And 59-across |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| SOLLAL |
Korean New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| CONSUL |
Office Held Five Times By Julius Caesar |
| 6
| SUDOKU |
Puzzle With A 9 X 9 Grid |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| NOWRUZ |
Iranian New Year, Celebrated On March 21, 2022 |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| CHEOPS |
Greek Name For This Puzzle's Enclosed Answer |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| SAWERS |
Carpenters, At Times |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 7
| STRIKER |
One Seeking A New Agreement, Perhaps |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| BIOFUEL |
Algae, At Times |
| 7
| TOOHARD |
Unlike This Puzzle, We Hope |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| PARTING |
With 58-across, What This Puzzle's Circled Letters Are ... Or What They're Doing |
| 7
| ALADDIN |
1992 Disney Film With The Ballad "a Whole New World" |
| 7
| AQUATIC |
Like The Five Animals In This Puzzle's Theme |
| 7
| BIGEASY |
Nickname For New Orleans, Celebrated By The Answers To The Starred Clues And Suggested By The Shaded Squares |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| FORTLEE |
Northern New Jersey Town |
| 8
| ROSHAMBO |
One Name For The Game Depicted In This Puzzle |
| 8
| TURNKEYS |
Jailers ... Or A Hint To "unlocking" Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| SONGKRAN |
Thai New Year, Celebrated On April 13, 2022 |
| 8
| DOTTHEIS |
Attend To Details ... Or A Hint To Entering Six Down Answers In This Puzzle |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 9
| BORNTORUN |
New Jersey's "unofficial Rock Theme Of Our State's Youth" |
| 9
| PUNISHERS |
Disciplinarians, At Times |
| 9
| ALONETIME |
It's Usually In Short Supply For New Parents |
| 9
| LOOSEENDS |
Unresolved Details ... And A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 10
| ROCKBOTTOM |
All-time Low ... Or A Musical Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 10
| GUTFEELING |
Intuition Without Logical Explanation, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 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 |
| 10
| SWITCHJOBS |
Change Careers, Or A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
| 11
| RAISETHEBAR |
Heighten Expectations, Say ... Or A Hint To Entering Four Answers In This Puzzle |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 11
| MATHTEACHER |
Someone Well Versed In This Puzzle's Theme |
| 12
| ROSHHASHANAH |
Jewish New Year, Celebrated On Sept. 25, 2022 |
| 12
| LAWOFGRAVITY |
Scientific Contribution From 98-down, Discovered In A Manner Suggested By This Puzzle's Theme |
| 12
| LITTLEDIPPER |
At The Party Where The Scientist Was Demonstrating Her New Shrink Ray, [zap!] The Punch Ladle Turned Into A ... |
| 13
| NAMEOFTHEGAME |
Something's Essential Aspect ... Or What's Spelled Out By Letters In This Puzzle's Eight "cups" |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 14
| SPRINGFESTIVAL |
Chinese New Year, Celebrated On Feb. 1, 2022 |
| 14
| REVENGEISADISH |
With 11-down, Proverb About Delayed Retribution, With A Hint To The Answers To This Puzzle's Starred Clues |
| 15
| FROMSTEMTOSTERN |
Thoroughly ... Or A Hint For Parsing Some Lowercase Letters In Four Of This Puzzle's Clues |
| 15
| ADROPINTHEOCEAN |
Insignificant Amount ... Or Hint To This Puzzle's Shaded Squares |
| 15
| THESOUNDOFMUSIC |
Rodgers And Hammerstein's "do-re-mi" Show, With A Hint To This Puzzle's Theme |
