| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 9
| LETMEDOWN |
"i Dated My Rock Climbing Instructor For A While, But He Just ..." |
| 10
| POINTTAKEN |
Acknowledgment That Another Person Is At Least Partly Right |
| 13
| CAMETONOTHING |
"then My Friend Set Me Up With A Recluse, But He ..." |
| 3
| APT |
Right On |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 4
| AMEN |
"right On!" |
| 4
| TEAM |
O's, But Not P's Or Q's |
| 5
| IKNOW |
"right?!" |
| 6
| INASEC |
"be Right There!" |
| 8
| CUSTOMER |
Tough ___ |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| SPY |
Person With Intelligence |
| 3
| ITD |
"___ Be My Pleasure!" |
| 3
| PET |
Something That All But Three U.s. Presidents Have Had While In Office |
| 3
| EMO |
My Chemical Romance Genre |
| 3
| ERE |
"... ___ I Again Behold My Romeo!" Juliet |
| 3
| ODD |
Funny, But Not "ha-ha" Funny |
| 3
| ACE |
Person Of Extraordinary Skill |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| THY |
"___ Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet ..." Psalms |
| 3
| GAS |
Pedal On The Right |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| NIA |
Vardalos Of "my Big Fat Greek Wedding" |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| LEN |
Canadian Band With The 1999 Top 10 Hit "steal My Sunshine" |
| 3
| ATE |
"thanks, But I Already ___" |
| 3
| AGE |
Nothing But A Number, It's Said |
| 3
| TAR |
Stuff In Cigarettes, But Not E-cigarettes |
| 3
| NEW |
Having But Lately Come Or Been Brought Into Being |
| 3
| AID |
Person Or Thing That Gives Help |
| 3
| POE |
Who Wrote "all That We See Or Seem / Is But A Dream Within A Dream" |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 4
| EGGS |
The Yolk's Not On Them, But In Them |
| 4
| ALTO |
Cher, But Not Sonny |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| ITRY |
Humble Reply To "nice Job!" |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| HALO |
Beyoncé Song With The Line "i Got My Angel Now" |
| 4
| ELMO |
Muppet Who Refers To Himself In The Third Person |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| SIMP |
Foolish Person |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| ITRY |
"just Doing My Job" |
| 4
| WHOS |
"but ___ Counting?" |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| TIPS |
Much Of A Delivery Person's Income |
| 4
| SUER |
Person Seeking Damages |
| 4
| LYNN |
Loretta Who Sang "you Ain't Woman Enough (to Take My Man)" |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| SEND |
Button Often Denoted By A Right Arrow |
| 4
| BRUT |
Quite Dry, But Sparkling? |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| THIS |
The One Right Here |
| 4
| SATE |
Stuff, But Not Junk |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| ISEE |
"all Right, Cool" |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| HELP |
Person Or Thing That Gives Help |
| 4
| ODDS |
Right-hand Page Numbers, Typically |
| 4
| ONIT |
"i'm Starting Right Now!" |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 5
| STATE |
Washington, But Not Washington, D.c. (yet!) |
| 5
| DARLA |
To Whom Alfalfa Wrote "you're Scum Between My Toes!" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| OWNED |
Whomped But Good |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| ACTOR |
Person In A Cast |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| ACUTE |
Less Than Right |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| TOMEI |
Marisa Of "my Cousin Vinny" |
| 5
| YODOG |
"wassup, My Dude" |
| 5
| NOVEL |
Having But Lately Come Or Been Brought Into Being |
| 5
| LOEWE |
"my Fair Lady" Composer |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| DINED |
Had Something Nice |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| FOSSE |
Only Person To Win An Oscar, Emmy And Tony In The Same Year (1973) |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| IHOPE |
"if My Luck Holds Out ..." |
| 5
| ORGAN |
Tongue, But Not Cheek |
| 5
| MILNE |
Children's Author Who Wrote "people Say Nothing Is Impossible, But I Do Nothing Every Day" |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| ASSIST |
Person Or Thing That Gives Help |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| SUCCOR |
Person Or Thing That Gives Help |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| ARLENE |
Francis Of Old Tv's "what's My Line?" |
| 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
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| SAWFIT |
Considered It Right (to) |
| 6
| BRENDA |
Actress Fricker Of "my Left Foot" |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| BADDAY |
When Nothing Goes Right |
| 6
| MENSCH |
Person Of Integrity |
| 6
| CARLOS |
With 76-across, Mexican Business Magnate Who Was Once The World's Richest Person |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| YODUDE |
"what's Up, My Man?!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| EEYORE |
Children's Character Who Says "it's Not Much Of A Tail, But I'm Sort Of Attached To It" |
| 6
| EMILIA |
"othello" Character Who Quips "they Are All But Stomachs, And We All But Food" |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| MODERN |
Having But Lately Come Or Been Brought Into Being |
| 6
| IMLIKE |
"so Then My Response Was ..." |
| 6
| AMUSED |
Finding It Funny |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| RECENT |
Having But Lately Come Or Been Brought Into Being |
| 6
| OBTUSE |
More Than Right |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 7
| SEESFIT |
Deems Right |
| 7
| CURRENT |
Having But Lately Come Or Been Brought Into Being |
| 7
| SPHERES |
Baseballs And Basketballs, But Not Footballs |
| 7
| ZENDAYA |
Youngest Person To Win The Emmy For Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series (2020) |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| PITSAWS |
Two-person Log Cutters |
| 7
| FREEGAN |
Person Who Lives On Discarded Food |
| 7
| ITAKEIT |
"... Per My Understanding" |
| 7
| ORIENTS |
Points In The Right Direction |
| 7
| ALABAMA |
"my Cousin Vinny" Setting |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| HAVEATIT |
"dig Right In!" |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| GUESSWHO |
"tell Me If You Recognize Me From Just My Voice And The Feel Of My Hands Over Your Eyes" |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| LIMABEAN |
Food Named For A World Capital (but Pronounced Differently) |
| 8
| CELLMATE |
Person You're In With |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| YARDSALES |
Events Where One Person's Trash May Be Another Person's Treasure |
| 9
| ENCOURAGE |
Person Or Thing That Gives Help |
| 10
| SUITTOATEE |
Fit Perfectly |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| NONAPOLOGY |
" It Was Not My Intention To Make Anyone Upset," Often |
| 10
| LEASTWORST |
Bad, But Better Than The Alternatives |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| DOESTOATEE |
Executes Perfectly |
| 10
| ASKMELATER |
"i'm Too Busy Right Now" |
| 10
| THATSAMORE |
Song Title Following The Lyric "scuzza Me, But You See, Back In Old Napoli ..." |
| 11
| PARENTHESIS |
The Right One Can Produce A Smile |
| 11
| CARPOOLLANE |
Something That Not A Single Person Can Go In? |
| 11
| ILLPRACTICE |
A Healthy Person Regularly Calling In Sick, E.g.? |
| 12
| THISONESONME |
"have Another Round - My Treat!" |
| 12
| MISSEDTHECUT |
"i Was In A Serious Relationship With A Hippie, But He ..." |
| 12
| DIDNTWORKOUT |
"so Then I Dated A Fun Couch Potato, But He ..." |
| 13
| WOULDNEVERFLY |
"then I Had A Fling With A Pittsburgh Penguin, But I Knew 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 |
| 16
| HANGINGBYATHREAD |
Surviving, But Just Barely |
