| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| MRT |
Actor With The Famous Line "i Pity The Fool!" |
| 3
| LAT |
Line On A Map Abbr. |
| 3
| WON |
Broke The Finish Line Ribbon |
| 3
| PDA |
Kissing On The Subway, E.g., For Short |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 3
| RRS |
B&o And Short Line Abbr. |
| 3
| THE |
On-line Connection? |
| 3
| STN |
Subway Stop Abbr. |
| 3
| DRY |
Hang Out On A Line |
| 3
| ICK |
Gag Line? |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| MAE |
West With The Classic Movie Line "i'm No 45-across ..." |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| JAWS |
Film With The Line "you're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat" |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| FRET |
Line On A Neck |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| SLUR |
Curved Line Over A Series Of Notes, In Sheet Music |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| KNOT |
"i'm A Frayed ___" (punch Line Of A Classic Joke) |
| 4
| SEAM |
Underground Line |
| 4
| LEIA |
"star Wars" General With The Line "if You See Our Son, Bring Him Home" |
| 4
| JUNE |
"we / Jazz ___" (line In Gwendolyn Brooks's "we Real Cool") |
| 4
| AONE |
Top-of-the-line |
| 4
| COST |
Tag Line? |
| 4
| ATTN |
Subject Line Abbr. |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| KLEE |
Artist Who Said "a Line Is A Dot That Went For A Walk" |
| 4
| ATTN |
Subj. Line Heading |
| 4
| HALO |
Beyoncé Song With The Line "i Got My Angel Now" |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| JAYZ |
Rapper With The Line "i'm Not A Businessman, I'm A Business, Man" |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| SPLAT |
Sound Of A Cake Hitting The Floor, Frosting First |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| LYRIC |
Line Of A Song |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ITSME |
Part Of A Classic Breakup Line |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| SEWER |
Waste Line |
| 5
| ASIDE |
Line To The House |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| OBEYS |
Falls Into Line |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| SERTA |
Brand With An Icomfort Line |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 6
| SESTET |
Six-line Stanza |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| OHLOOK |
Sight Line? |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 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
| CALLME |
Phone Line? |
| 6
| RULERS |
People In A Long Line, Perhaps |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 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
| ARLENE |
Francis Of Old Tv's "what's My Line?" |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 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
| CAESURA |
Pause In The Middle Of A Line Of Poetry |
| 7
| ZXCVBNM |
Line Just Before A Comma |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 8
| OBEDIENT |
Toeing The Line |
| 8
| OHIGETIT |
Line When You're Late To The Punch Line |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| MRSANDMAN |
Classic Song With The Line "give Him A Lonely Heart Like Pagliacci / And Lots Of Wavy Hair Like Liberace" |
| 9
| THEKICKER |
An Ironic Punch Line |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 10
| FREEFALLIN |
Tom Petty Hit With The Opening Line "she's A Good Girl, Loves Her Mama" |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 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 |
| 15
| NOMANISANISLAND |
Classic John Donne Line |
| 15
| GOTTACATCHEMALL |
Line Of Pokémon |
