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| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
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| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
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| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
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| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
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| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
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| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
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| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
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| OCT |
Month With A So-called "hunter's Moon" Abbr. |
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| YAM |
Chinese ___, Food Also Called Nagaimo |
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| NEE |
Once Called |
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| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
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| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
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| ELF |
Figure In A Grimm Story |
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| KOP |
Keystone Figure |
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| APR |
Figure That A Bank Charges For A Loan, For Short |
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| BID |
Auction Action |
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| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
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| NEE |
Formerly Called |
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| NRA |
Org. Targeted By Moms Demand Action |
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| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
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| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
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| ENT |
Towering Figure In "the Two Towers" |
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| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
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| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
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| KNEX |
Toy Brand With Colorful Rods And Gears |
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| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
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| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
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| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
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| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
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| THOR |
He Called Hulk A "friend From Work," In A Marvel Movie |
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| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
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| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
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| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
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| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
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| HATE |
What Graham Greene Called A "failure Of Imagination" |
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| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
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| EDEN |
First World? |
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| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
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| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
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| AXEL |
Figure Skating Jump |
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| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
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| HERA |
Female Figure In The "iliad" |
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| EBAY |
Taobao, The So-called "___ Of China" |
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| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
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| EXEC |
Board Figure, Informally |
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| LEIA |
Royal Figure Of Sci-fi |
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| ICON |
Revered Figure |
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| MEIR |
So-called "iron Lady" Of Israeli Politics |
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| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
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| EBAY |
Company Originally Called Auctionweb |
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| ANDY |
Name On Woody's Shoe In "toy Story" |
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| MOCK |
To Ridicule By Mimicry Of Action Or Speech |
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| HARE |
March Madness Figure? |
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| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
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| BOISE |
State Capital In The So-called "treasure Valley" |
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| LOCKE |
So-called "father Of Liberalism" |
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| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
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| ALEXA |
Name Often Called In A Smart Home |
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| REPLY |
Return By Some Action |
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| TAUNT |
To Ridicule By Mimicry Of Action Or Speech |
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| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
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| PLUSH |
Like Many A Stuffed Toy |
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| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
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| ESSEX |
One Of England's So-called "home Counties" |
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| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
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| CARAT |
Diamond Figure |
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| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
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| WOODY |
Film Character Who Shouts "you Are A Toy!" |
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| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
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| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
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| MOSES |
Biblical Figure With A Large Staff |
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| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
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| HIGGS |
___ Boson (the So-called "god Particle") |
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| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
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| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
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| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
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| FAERIE |
Old English Folklore Figure |
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| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
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| ALSTON |
Charles ___, Artist Whose Bust Of M.l.k. Jr. Was The First Image Of An African American Displayed At The White House |
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| RETORT |
Return By Some Action |
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| ANSWER |
Return By Some Action |
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| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
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| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
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| ELMORE |
___ James, The So-called "king Of The Slide Guitar" |
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| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
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| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
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| WINNER |
First Person? |
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| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
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| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
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| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
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| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
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| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
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| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
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| DORITOS |
Chips Brand Whose "cool Ranch" Flavor Is Called "cool American" In Europe |
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| CATCHON |
Figure It Out |
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| MADONNA |
One-named Singer Called The "queen Of Pop" |
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| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
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| BOXKITE |
Airborne Toy With No Tail |
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| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
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| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
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| CLARION |
Loud And Clear, As A Call To Action |
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| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
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| MONARCH |
Butterfly Also Called A Common Tiger Or Wanderer |
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| MILEAGE |
Figure That Determines An Air Passenger's Status |
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| RESPOND |
Return By Some Action |
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| WHEATIES |
So-called "breakfast Of Champions" |
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| UNDOSEND |
Action After A Change Of Mind |
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| STILETTO |
Shoe Sometimes Called A "spike Heel" |
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| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
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| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
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| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
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| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
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| BEARSEARS |
Utah National Monument Called Shash Jaa' In Navajo |
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| CAMELSPIN |
Figure Skating Move Based On The Arabesque In Ballet |
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| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
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| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
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| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
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| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
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| BANYANTREE |
Sacred Indian Plant Also Called The Strangler Fig |
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| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
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| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
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| ACKNOWLEDGE |
Return By Some Action |
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| STACEYABRAMS |
Voting Rights Activist Who Founded Fair Fight Action |
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| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
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| SHROUDOFTURIN |
Pope Pius Xii Called It "a Holy Thing Perhaps Like Nothing Else" |
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| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
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| LOCHNESSMONSTER |
Subject Of The So-called "surgeon's Photograph" Of 1934 |
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| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
