| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| MUM |
It's "the Word" |
| 3
| SAD |
Word Before Case Or Sack |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| YES |
Last Word Of "ulysses" |
| 3
| ALL |
Last Word Of The Pledge Of Allegiance |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| POP |
Weasel Word? |
| 3
| NEE |
Wedding Notice Word |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| ASS |
Word After Bad Or Hard |
| 3
| DAY |
Word After Field Or Before Dreams |
| 3
| ROD |
Word After Hot Or Lightning |
| 3
| RUG |
Word After Throw Or Scatter |
| 3
| POT |
Word Before Shot And After Hot |
| 3
| AIR |
Word Before Drop Or Ball |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| POW |
Word In A "batman" Balloon |
| 3
| AYE |
Word In Favor |
| 3
| NOT |
Word Often Contracted In Contractions |
| 3
| SHE |
Word Repeatedly Said While Plucking Petals |
| 3
| ASS |
Word With Bad Or Smart |
| 3
| SEA |
Word With Bass Or Bed |
| 3
| EAR |
Word With Dog Or Elephant |
| 3
| ART |
Word With Fair Or Film |
| 3
| ROD |
Word With Hot Or Fly |
| 3
| DAY |
Word With Latter Or Red-letter |
| 3
| OIL |
Word With Snake Or Salad |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| NEE |
Name-dropping Word |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| WAR |
*word In A Classic Tolstoy Title |
| 3
| THY |
"___ Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet ..." Psalms |
| 4
| OBOE |
Word From The French For "high Wood" |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| RULE |
Word With Gag And Ground |
| 4
| TUNE |
Word With Fine Or Signature |
| 4
| LENS |
Word After Contact Or Before Cover |
| 4
| ALAS |
Word Of Regret |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| SERA |
Word Sung Twice After "que" |
| 4
| AMAS |
Latin 101 Word |
| 4
| RULE |
Word That May Be Defiantly Rhymed With "schmool" |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| AMEN |
The Final Word |
| 4
| EVER |
Penultimate Word In A Fairy Tale |
| 4
| EACH |
Pricing Word |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| PLEA |
Word That, Fittingly, Contains All Four Different Letters Of Appeal |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| ETNA |
Italian Place Whose Name Comes From A Greek Word Meaning "i Burn" |
| 4
| SEAS |
Word With High Or Seven |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| PASO |
Word Before Doble Or Robles |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| BEST |
Word Before Actor And Actress At The Oscars |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| DAYO |
Word Before "... Wanna Go Home," In Calypso |
| 4
| APSE |
Word That Sounds Like A Plural Of 1-down |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| BABY |
Word With Sitter Or Steps |
| 4
| BODY |
Word With Shop, Shot Or Shape |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| KAMA |
Word Meaning "desire" In A Classic Sanskrit Text |
| 4
| ICON |
Word After Gay Or Fashion |
| 4
| HOLD |
Word After Foot Or Before Hands |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 5
| PEACE |
*word In A Classic Tolstoy Title |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| PEACE |
Word Of Leave-taking |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| IHEAR |
"word On The Street Is ..." |
| 5
| ALLAN |
Writer Edgar ___ Poe |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| TIDAL |
Word With Wave And Pool |
| 5
| BLACK |
Word With Tie Or Belt |
| 5
| TRADE |
Word With Surplus Or Secret |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| CANDY |
Word With Rock Or Hard |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| SCENE |
Last Word In An Improv Show |
| 5
| HONOR |
Word With Code Or Card |
| 5
| POACH |
Eggs Benedict Recipe Word |
| 5
| BOOBY |
Word Before Trap Or Prize |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| DRAMA |
Word With Club Or Queen |
| 5
| OPERA |
Word With Box Or Gloves |
| 5
| MARIA |
Name That's "all The Beautiful Sounds Of The World In A Single Word," On Broadway |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| COLADA |
Word In Some Cocktail Names |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| ULTIMA |
Final Syllable Of A Word, In Linguistics |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 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
| SHORTS |
Word After Booty Or Bermuda |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 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 |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 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 |
| 9
| EVOLUTION |
Word That Becomes More Dramatic When You Add An "r" In Front |
| 9
| SITUATION |
Word Before Room Or Comedy |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 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 |
