| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 6
| IAMBIC |
Like "to Be Or Not To Be" |
| 3
| OTC |
Like Some Meds |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Some Humor And Wine |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Some Humor And Martinis |
| 3
| PBS |
Network Supported By "viewers Like You" |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| WET |
Like Some Blankets And Bars |
| 3
| ASL |
It Has Colloquial Gestures Like "kiss-fist" And "shaking L" Abbr. |
| 3
| DRY |
Like Wine Labeled "sec" |
| 3
| ODD |
Like Almost All Prime Numbers |
| 3
| RES |
Like Some Telephone Nos. |
| 3
| INE |
Like Bach's Partita For Violin No. 3 |
| 3
| APT |
Like Usain Bolt's Last Name |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| DIY |
Like Typical Projects In Popular Mechanics Magazine, In Brief |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| IND |
Like The Opening Of Mahler's Symphony No. 9 |
| 3
| REX |
King Of Ancient Rome |
| 3
| RED |
Like Diamonds |
| 3
| DUH |
"like, Obviously!" |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| TALL |
Like Some Tales |
| 4
| ORAL |
Like Some Vaccines |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| EVIL |
Like The More Interesting Twin, Some Would Say |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| MEEK |
Like The Eventual Inheritors Of The Earth, In Matthew |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| AGED |
Like Scotch |
| 4
| ARTY |
Like Some Designs On Etsy |
| 4
| RUNG |
Like Church Bells |
| 4
| DEWY |
Like Grass On A Misty Morning |
| 4
| OILY |
Like Garage Floors, Often |
| 4
| AVID |
Like Fans Who Hold Season Tickets, Typically |
| 4
| ICED |
Like Many A Summertime Beverage |
| 4
| ARTY |
Like Many College Film Projects |
| 4
| SUED |
Like Discriminatory Employers, Often |
| 4
| INHD |
Like Many Tv Broadcasts Since The 1990s |
| 4
| ARID |
Like Climates Where Cacti Thrive |
| 4
| AIRY |
Like Cheese Puffs And Rice Cakes |
| 4
| SNAP |
Like Some Decisions |
| 4
| ARID |
Like Much Of Sudan |
| 4
| OILY |
Like Auto Shop Rags |
| 4
| ASHY |
Like A Used Firepit |
| 4
| TAUT |
Like A Tug-of-war Rope |
| 4
| ANTI |
Like A Thumbs-down Vote |
| 4
| RARE |
Like A T206 Honus Wagner Baseball Card |
| 4
| INKY |
Like A Stamp Pad |
| 4
| SWUM |
Like The Start Of An Ironman Race |
| 4
| NEON |
Like The Radio City Music Hall Sign |
| 4
| OAKY |
Like Many A Barrel-aged Wine |
| 4
| VAST |
Like The Universe |
| 4
| THEM |
"how Do You Like ___ Apples?" |
| 4
| NERO |
Ruler During The Great Fire Of Rome |
| 4
| LORE |
Romulus, Remus And The Founding Of Rome, E.g. |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| RASP |
Speak Like Clint Eastwood |
| 4
| SEED |
Starting Point |
| 4
| OSHA |
Org. Issuing Vaccine Standards Starting In 2021 |
| 4
| BLOC |
Contingent Of Like-minded Voters |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| TEEN |
"smells Like ___ Spirit" (nirvana Song) |
| 4
| BAWL |
Cry Like A Baby |
| 4
| ARRS |
Talk Like A Pirate Day Outbursts |
| 4
| ONIT |
"i'm Starting Right Now!" |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| APSE |
Word That Sounds Like A Plural Of 1-down |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| AHAB |
"grand, Ungodly, God-like" Man Of Fiction |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| SKOL |
Vodka Brand That Sounds Like A Toast |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 5
| NOISY |
Like Many Street-level Apartments |
| 5
| PLUSH |
Like Many A Stuffed Toy |
| 5
| STRUT |
Walk Around Like You Own The Place |
| 5
| JUICY |
Like Oranges And Some Gossip |
| 5
| MINTY |
Like Much Toothpaste |
| 5
| SWEET |
Like Most Desserts |
| 5
| INANE |
Like Much Three Stooges Humor |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| TOGAS |
They Reflected Rank In Old Rome |
| 5
| ATEAM |
Starting Squad |
| 5
| PALER |
Like Pastels Compared To Primary Colors |
| 5
| OAKEN |
Like Many Chardonnay Barrels |
| 5
| RETRO |
Like Men's Double-breasted Suits, E.g. |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| FLOWN |
Like Planes And Flags |
| 5
| OOZED |
Moved Like Molasses |
| 5
| TASED |
Like The Villainous Max Shreck, At The End Of "batman Returns" |
| 5
| NORSE |
Like Thor Or Loki |
| 5
| TENTH |
Like J, Alphabetically |
| 5
| TRANS |
Like Those Celebrated With An Annual Day Of Visibility On March 31 |
| 5
| FINED |
Like Speeders, Often |
| 5
| RARER |
Like Uranium Vis-à-vis Carbon |
| 5
| SEEMS |
Looks Like |
| 5
| STEEP |
Like Some Roller Coaster Drops |
| 5
| OGLES |
Looks Like A Jerk |
| 5
| YESNO |
Like Some Questions |
| 5
| OOZES |
Moves Like Muck |
| 5
| LOOTS |
Ransacks Like A Pirate |
| 5
| IOWAN |
Like Some Quad Cities Residents |
| 5
| WAXED |
Like Some Legs And Mustaches |
| 5
| ARTSY |
Like Some Gallery Displays |
| 5
| LADEN |
Packed, Like A Ship With Cargo |
| 5
| ABBAS |
Palestinian President Starting In 2005 |
| 5
| NOFEE |
Like Some Checking Accounts |
| 5
| PAPAL |
Like Some Bulls |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| DROLL |
Like Some "monty Python" Humor |
| 5
| DRIER |
Like Prunes Vis-à-vis Plums |
| 5
| BULGY |
Like Pronounced Muscles |
| 5
| SIXTH |
Like The Most Recent Pope Paul Among All Popes Named Paul |
| 5
| ANNUS |
Year, In Ancient Rome |
| 5
| INERT |
Like Helium |
| 5
| MESSY |
Like A Breakup Gone Bad |
| 5
| ASIAN |
Like Almost Two-thirds Of The Earth's Population |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| NOOUT |
Like A Situation At The Start Of An Inning |
| 5
| INEPT |
Like A Schlemiel |
| 5
| NEEDY |
Like A Partner Who Can't Spend A Second Apart From You |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| BLEAT |
Cry Like A Kid |
| 5
| AGILE |
Like Ballet Dancers |
| 5
| TERRA |
Land In Rome |
| 5
| ATOLL |
Island Like Kiritimati |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| JAIME |
French "i Like" |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| REPEL |
Act Like Some Poles |
| 5
| SAGGY |
Like A Dewlap |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| BAGGY |
Like Hammer Pants |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| RURAL |
Like Farm Country |
| 5
| LITUP |
Like Festive Houses During The Holidays |
| 5
| JOYCE |
___ Bryant, 20th-century Singer/civil Rights Activist |
| 6
| MOLTEN |
Like The Inside Of A Lava Cake |
| 6
| JAMMED |
Like Some Signals And Traffic |
| 6
| INBETA |
Like Many Apps With Faulty Features |
| 6
| STRAWY |
Like Some Horse Bedding |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| ARCHED |
Like Eyebrows |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| FTYPES |
Jaguar Two-seaters Starting In 2013 |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| FOLDUP |
Like Some Space-saving Beds |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| OBLONG |
Like Kiwis And Plum Tomatoes, By Shape |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| SLUSHY |
Like Winter Roads During A Thaw |
| 6
| TWOHIT |
Like Some Well-pitched Games |
| 6
| AUBREY |
___ Beardsley, 19th-century English Illustrator |
| 6
| LESSER |
Like The "5" Of "5 & 10" |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| RIBBED |
Like Twill And Faille |
| 6
| FEARED |
Like Bogeymen |
| 6
| INLAID |
Like Mosaic Tiles |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| ORANGE |
Like A Screwdriver |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| ACIDIC |
Like Apples And Oranges |
| 6
| ELDEST |
Like Meg Among The March Sisters |
| 6
| SWAMPY |
Like Marshes |
| 6
| NOCARB |
Like Diets That Cut Out Bread And Pasta |
| 6
| QATARI |
Like Al Jazeera |
| 6
| PREWEB |
Like Pioneering Search Engines Of The 1980s |
| 6
| TOOTHY |
Like A Wide Grin |
| 6
| SALTED |
Like Pretzels And Winter Highways |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| ARETOO |
Comeback That Sounds Like A "star Wars" Character |
| 6
| SEEDED |
Like Some Fruits And Tennis Players |
| 6
| RAIDED |
Like Refrigerators At Night, Sometimes |
| 6
| ANIMES |
Cartoon Films Like "spirited Away" And "ninja Scroll" |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 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
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| THEMED |
Like Many Crossword Puzzles (though Not This One) |
| 6
| SASHAY |
Walk Like You Own The Place |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| SEWNON |
Like Scouting Patches |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 7
| ONETERM |
Like Trump's Presidency |
| 7
| GRAWLIX |
String Of Typographical Symbols, Like @%$&!, To Represent An Obscenity |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| HAALAND |
Deb ___, Secretary Of The Interior Starting In 2021 |
| 7
| TACTFUL |
Like Whatever Comes After "how Should I Put This?" |
| 7
| DRESDEN |
Where Wagner's "tannhäuser" Was First Performed |
| 7
| LOLCATS |
Memes With Captions Like "i Can Has Cheezburger?" |
| 7
| CLASSIC |
Like Works Of Shakespeare Or Frank Sinatra |
| 7
| WARTORN |
Like The Balkans In The 1990s |
| 7
| GLITCHY |
Like Many A Beta Release |
| 7
| EASIEST |
Like Crosswords On Monday Vis-à-vis Those In The Rest Of The Week |
| 7
| SAMESEX |
Like Some Couples |
| 7
| BREADED |
Like Some Chicken Cutlets |
| 7
| ROUNDED |
Like 100 Vis-à-vis 99, Say |
| 7
| MOONLIT |
Like A Romantic Evening Stroll, Perhaps |
| 7
| SAMESEX |
Like Some Relationships |
| 7
| DCBASED |
Like Much White House Press |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 7
| STRANGE |
Like Anomalies |
| 7
| INFUSED |
Like Some Vodkas |
| 7
| SLURRED |
Like Drunken Speech |
| 7
| PRECODE |
Like Early Uncensored Hollywood Films |
| 7
| HEAVIER |
Like épées Vis-à-vis Foils |
| 7
| AQUATIC |
Like The Five Animals In This Puzzle's Theme |
| 7
| ARTDECO |
Like Los Angeles's Griffith Observatory |
| 7
| WEDIDIT |
First Three Words Famously Said By Kamala Harris To Joe Biden Upon Winning The 2020 Election |
| 7
| RHYMING |
Like 17-, 26-, 40-, 51- And 64-across, With Respect To The Numbers In Their Clues |
| 8
| HALFREAD |
Like A Book With A Bookmark In The Middle, Say |
| 8
| CHEROKEE |
Like Sequoyah, For Whom The Tree Is Named |
| 8
| SEQUENCE |
When Preceded By [the Circled Letters], Progression Starting With 0 And 1 |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| TOETOTOE |
Like Some Confrontations |
| 8
| ALVEOLAR |
Like The Consonants "t" And "d" |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| EGYPTIAN |
Like Hathor, Goddess Of Motherhood |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 9
| MRSANDMAN |
Classic Song With The Line "give Him A Lonely Heart Like Pagliacci / And Lots Of Wavy Hair Like Liberace" |
| 9
| WARMSUPTO |
Begins To Like |
| 9
| THIGHHIGH |
Like Some Fashion Boots |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| UMMACHINE |
What A Nervous Public Speaker Sounds Like? |
| 9
| BUNCHEDUP |
Like Part Of A Dress Affected By Static Cling, Say |
| 9
| SIMMERING |
Like Some Feuds And Foods On A Stove |
| 9
| PROTECTED |
Like Many Endangered Species |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| HYPERBARIC |
Like Oxygen Therapy Chambers |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| MUSTBENICE |
"wish I Could Live Like That ..." |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 11
| PENALCOLONY |
Early 19th-century Australia, For One |
| 11
| GWENSTEFANI |
Singer With The 2016 #1 Album "this Is What The Truth Feels Like" |
| 11
| POWERPOSING |
Standing Like Wonder Woman, Say |
| 11
| HADNOPRAYER |
"it's Tough Finding The Right Person. My First Boyfriend Was A Perfectly Nice Atheist, But He ..." |
| 12
| REALORIGINAL |
Sarcastic "oh, Like You Thought Of That Yourself" |
| 12
| SOLDFORPARTS |
Like Many A Lemon, Eventually |
| 13
| GERTRUDEELION |
1988 American Nobelist In Physiology Or Medicine Who Helped Develop The First Drug Used To Fight Rejection In Organ Transplants |
| 13
| AMILLIONBUCKS |
Great Thing To Feel Like |
| 13
| FALLINTOPLACE |
Become Clear ... Or Make Like The Object Represented By The Circled Letters |
| 13
| SHROUDOFTURIN |
Pope Pius Xii Called It "a Holy Thing Perhaps Like Nothing Else" |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| OPTICALILLUSION |
This Isn't What It Looks Like! |
| 15
| PASCALSTRIANGLE |
Number Pattern Named After A 17th-century French Mathematician |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
| 21
| FOLLOWTHEBOUNCINGBALL |
Karaoke Instruction ... Or What To Do Starting At 10-down |
