| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 4
| AWAY |
Words With "with Words" |
| 5
| OTHER |
In ___ Words |
| 3
| LAO |
Language In Which Most Words Are Monosyllabic |
| 3
| UZO |
Emmy-winning Actress Aduba |
| 3
| IDO |
Tying Words? |
| 3
| NOV |
Election Mo. |
| 3
| TOE |
The Third Of Three X's |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| DOC |
Only Dwarf With A Three-letter Name |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| MAC |
With 58-down, Words Before Cheese |
| 3
| LIU |
___ Yifei, Star Of 2020's "mulan" |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| DOT |
One Of Three In Fiji? |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| PET |
Something That All But Three U.s. Presidents Have Had While In Office |
| 3
| TAO |
Terence ___, Fields Medal-winning Mathematician |
| 3
| WAP |
2020 #1 Hit For Cardi B And Megan Thee Stallion |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| COO |
Soft-spoken Words |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| ETTU |
Shakespearean Words To A Traitor |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| TOAD |
A Sculpture Of A Three-legged One Is Considered Lucky In Feng Shui |
| 4
| ORSO |
Guesstimate Words |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| ISTO |
Analogy Words |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| DOWD |
Pulitzer-winning Columnist Maureen |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| CECE |
___ Winans, 12-time Grammy-winning Gospel Singer |
| 4
| WELL |
When Said Three Times, "what Have We Here?!" |
| 4
| ZEKE |
___ Elliott, Three-time N.f.l. Pro Bowler, To Fans |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| OHOK |
Words Of Begrudging Agreement |
| 4
| SELA |
Emmy-winning Ward |
| 4
| ARAT |
"i Smell ___" (words Of Suspicion) |
| 4
| ASIS |
Words That May Scare Off A Buyer |
| 4
| IKEA |
Store With A Three-syllable Name In Four Letters |
| 4
| IMOK |
Reassuring Words |
| 4
| IMOK |
Reassuring Words After A Fall |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| YOHO |
Words Sung Twice Before "a Pirate's Life For Me" |
| 4
| RIGS |
Manipulates, As An Election |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| TUBI |
Streaming Service Acquired By Fox In 2020 |
| 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
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| INON |
Words After Walk Or Cash |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| NORSE |
Origin Of The Words "club" And "gun" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| RHINE |
Europe's Three Countries Bridge Crosses It |
| 5
| CHADS |
Waste Of An Election? |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| SEEME |
Dreaded Words From A Teacher |
| 5
| PINTA |
Fastest Of Three Famous Ships |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| HBOGO |
Streaming Service Rebranded With The Suffix Max In 2020 |
| 5
| JETLI |
Martial Artist/actor Who Played The Emperor Of China In 2020's "mulan" |
| 5
| TRYTO |
Words Before Relax Or Remember |
| 5
| ILOSE |
Words Of Concession |
| 5
| SONIC |
Video Game Character In A Hit 2020 Film |
| 5
| FOIST |
Impose (upon) |
| 5
| TERSE |
In Few Words |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 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
| PALIN |
Biden's Debate Opponent In 2008 |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| AXLES |
Three Or More On A Semi |
| 5
| SODOI |
Words Of Agreement |
| 5
| INANE |
Like Much Three Stooges Humor |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| BERRA |
Who Famously Said "i Really Didn't Say Everything I Said" |
| 5
| IRINA |
The Third Of Chekhov's "three Sisters" |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| SEENIT |
Words Repeated While Scrolling Through A Netflix List, Perhaps |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| NEWTON |
Who Was Famously Hit Over The Head With Inspiration? |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| ECHOED |
What Beatles Music Did At Abbey Road, Famously |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| SCRAWL |
Poorly Written Words |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ANTONY |
___ Blinken, Biden's Secretary Of State |
| 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
| EDITED |
Minced Words, Say |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| CANTER |
Three-beat Gait |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 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
| OILERS |
N.h.l. Team With Five Championship-winning Seasons In The 1980s |
| 6
| GENDER |
One Of Three For German Nouns, Or One Of Four For Those In Africa's Zande Language |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 7
| YOTEAMO |
Words Before Un Beso |
| 7
| PICTURE |
Tell Or Depict In Written Or Spoken Words |
| 7
| NARRATE |
Tell Or Depict In Written Or Spoken Words |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| AUNTMAY |
Comics-based Film Character Played By Rosemary Harris, Sally Field And Marisa Tomei |
| 7
| CHATSUP |
Woos With Words |
| 7
| BRAILLE |
Words Read With Feeling |
| 7
| PORTRAY |
Tell Or Depict In Written Or Spoken Words |
| 7
| RAISMAN |
Gymnast Aly With Three Olympic Gold Medals |
| 7
| SCALENE |
Having Three Unequal Sides |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| MAHOMES |
Youngest-ever Qb To Be Named Super Bowl M.v.p. (2020) |
| 7
| FEARNOT |
Calming Words |
| 7
| DUALIPA |
"levitating" Singer, 2020 |
| 7
| ZENDAYA |
Youngest Person To Win The Emmy For Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (2020) |
| 7
| GOODAIM |
What A Three-point Shooter Needs |
| 7
| AMERICA |
With 18-across, Emmy-winning "ugly Betty" Actress |
| 8
| DESCRIBE |
Tell Or Depict In Written Or Spoken Words |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 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
| EXITPOLL |
Survey Of Election Day Voters |
| 8
| SUPERPAC |
Big-dollar Election-influencing Grp. |
| 8
| AREYOUOK |
Words Of Concern |
| 8
| ADMITONE |
Words On A Ticket |
| 9
| COFFEEURN |
Joe Carter? |
| 9
| INDIAARIE |
Grammy-winning Singer Of "little Things" |
| 9
| KISSIMMEE |
Florida City Whose Name Has Three Pairs Of Doubled Letters |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| MRSMAISEL |
Emmy-winning Title Role For Rachel Brosnahan |
| 9
| BALDEAGLE |
Benjamin Franklin Famously Considered It "a Rank Coward" With "bad Moral Character" |
| 10
| MIDDLEEAST |
Birthplace Of Three Major World Religions |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| WANNATRADE |
Exchange Words |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 11
| TRICERATOPS |
Dinosaur Whose Name Means "three-horned Face" |
| 11
| JORDANPEELE |
Oscar-winning Director Of "get Out" |
| 12
| CHARACTERIZE |
Tell Or Depict In Written Or Spoken Words |
| 12
| TOOBADFORYOU |
Gloating Words Of Mock Consolation |
| 13
| PATHTOVICTORY |
Election Night Calculation ... Or What's Traced By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 14
| OHIOWASHINGTON |
Three U.s. States (4,4,10) |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 15
| YEOFLITTLEFAITH |
Words To A Skeptic |
| 15
| CAIROMEXICOCITY |
Three World Capitals (5,4,10) |
| 15
| PANAMALITHUANIA |
Three Countries (6,4,9) |
