| 3
| TIC |
The First "o" Of O-o-o |
| 3
| OUT |
The First "o" Of O.o.o. |
| 4
| STUN |
Floor |
| 5
| INLET |
Sound, E.g. |
| 3
| EEK |
Sound Of A Mouse Pointer? |
| 3
| HIC |
Repeated Sound That's Hard To Get Rid Of |
| 3
| IRT |
N.y.c.'s First Subway Line |
| 3
| COO |
Crib Sound |
| 3
| GRR |
Hound Sound |
| 3
| FDR |
First Sitting Prez To Fly In An Airplane |
| 3
| IRA |
Glass Who Shared The First-ever Pulitzer In Audio Journalism |
| 3
| MAE |
___ Jemison, First Black Woman In Space |
| 3
| OSS |
Where Wonder Woman First Worked Abbr. |
| 3
| BTS |
First K-pop Group To Perform At The Grammys |
| 4
| LEDE |
First Line In A News Story |
| 4
| FINN |
Fictional Narrator Whose First Name Is A Fruit |
| 4
| APPS |
First Courses, Informally |
| 4
| CALM |
Making No Noise Or Sound |
| 4
| RENO |
Janet ___, First Female Attorney General |
| 4
| TIKI |
First Man, In Maori Mythology |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Among Billionaires |
| 4
| MEWS |
Makes A Small, Plaintive Sound |
| 4
| EMIL |
Jannings Who Won The First Best Actor Oscar |
| 4
| ELON |
First Name Of Time's 2021 Person Of The Year |
| 4
| ELSA |
One Of Two Disney Characters Singing "for The First Time In Forever" |
| 4
| OTOE |
First Native American Tribe To Meet With Lewis And Clark |
| 4
| LEAH |
Jacob's First Wife |
| 4
| SLAB |
It's A Piece Of Cake! |
| 4
| YMCA |
Facility Often Referred To By Its First Letter |
| 4
| ICED |
Decorated, As A Cake |
| 4
| BAKE |
Prepare, As A King Cake |
| 4
| PURR |
Sound From A Contented Cat |
| 4
| MACH |
Speed Of Sound |
| 4
| HARM |
"first, Do No ___" (physician's Maxim) |
| 4
| PURR |
Sound Of A Jaguar |
| 4
| ROAR |
Sound Of A Jaguar |
| 4
| ROAR |
Sound Likely Not Made By A Tyrannosaurus Rex, Despite What "jurassic Park" Would Have You Believe |
| 4
| ROAR |
Sound In The Serengeti |
| 4
| GRRR |
Angry Dog's Sound |
| 4
| HUGH |
Aptly Named Six-time All-star First Baseman |
| 4
| EDEN |
Setting Of The First Panel In Hieronymus Bosch's "the Last Judgment" |
| 4
| PFFT |
Scoffing Sound |
| 4
| BEEP |
Robot Sound |
| 4
| BOSE |
Company With Sound Financials? |
| 4
| PURR |
Contented Cat's Sound |
| 4
| OPEN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 4
| ONCE |
First Word Of Poe's "the Raven" |
| 4
| EDEN |
First World? |
| 5
| NEMEA |
Site Of Hercules' First Labor |
| 5
| QUIET |
Making No Noise Or Sound |
| 5
| BEGIN |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| ACHOO |
Sound Of A Sneeze |
| 5
| START |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 5
| LONGO |
Vowel Sound At The End Of 15- And 26-across |
| 5
| ATEAM |
First-stringers |
| 5
| KATIE |
Woman's Nickname That Sounds Like Its First And Third Letters |
| 5
| COSMO |
First Name Of Kramer On "seinfeld" |
| 5
| BUNDT |
___ Cake (ring-shaped Dessert) |
| 5
| WILLA |
___ Player, First Black Woman To Become President Of A Four-year College |
| 5
| VOLES |
Animals That Become Different Animals When Their First Letter Is Changed To An "m" |
| 5
| GIJOE |
First Toy To Be Called An "action Figure" |
| 5
| ALBUS |
First Name In Harry Potter |
| 5
| ELISE |
Educator/writer ___ Johnson Mcdougald, First African American Female Principal In New York City Public Schools |
| 5
| SIGEP |
First National Fraternity To Officially Welcome Transgender Members (2014), Informally |
| 6
| TWEETY |
"headliner" Of The First Warner Bros. Short To Win An Oscar |
| 6
| TOPEKA |
Capital That Ends With Its State's First Two Letters |
| 6
| MURMUR |
Soothing Sound |
| 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
| TAPTAP |
Sound Check Sound |
| 6
| LAUNCH |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 6
| REEBOK |
Creator Of The First Pumped-up Athletic Shoe |
| 6
| ATHENS |
Destination Of The First Marathon (490 B.c.) |
| 6
| WINNER |
First Person? |
| 6
| CORNEA |
Part Of The Body First Successfully Transplanted In 1905 |
| 6
| ALIENS |
Ones Potentially Contacted In "first Contact" |
| 6
| PRINCE |
One-named Singer Who Pioneered The Minneapolis Sound |
| 6
| OSCARS |
Event First Televised In 1953, With "the" |
| 6
| STEREO |
"fantasia" Was The First Commercial Film Shown In It |
| 6
| SACHER |
___ Torte (austrian Cake) |
| 6
| OOMPAH |
Tuba Sound |
| 6
| WHOOPI |
First Name In Daytime Talk |
| 6
| MOLTEN |
Like The Inside Of A Lava Cake |
| 6
| INSECT |
Last Word Of The First Sentence Of Kafka's "the Metamorphosis" |
| 6
| COURIC |
Journalist Who Was The First Woman To Guest-host "jeopardy!" |
| 6
| RANKIN |
Jeannette ___, First Woman Elected To Congress |
| 6
| BREECH |
Bottom-first Birth Position |
| 7
| GRENDEL |
Beowulf's First Combatant |
| 7
| RESTFUL |
Making No Noise Or Sound |
| 7
| AREARUG |
Throw On The Floor |
| 7
| AREARUG |
Partial Floor Covering |
| 7
| DECATUR |
Illinois City That Was The First Home Of The Chicago Bears |
| 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 |
| 8
| INITIATE |
Proceed To Perform The First Or Earliest Part Of Some Action |
| 8
| LEGRESTS |
Certain Amenities For First-class Passengers |
| 8
| PARASITE |
First Foreign-language Film To Win Best Picture |
| 8
| IMPERIAL |
Like Rome Starting In The First Century B.c. |
| 8
| TRANQUIL |
Making No Noise Or Sound |
| 8
| PEACEFUL |
Making No Noise Or Sound |
| 8
| MORRISON |
First Black Woman To Win The Nobel Prize In Literature |
| 9
| GIVENNAME |
It's First Among Americans |
| 9
| SALTWATER |
Sound Filler |
| 10
| BROWSERWAR |
Navigator Was In The First One |
| 10
| DONKEYKONG |
1981 Video Game That Featured The First Appearance Of Mario |
| 10
| PROMQUEENS |
These Women "rule" The Dance Floor |
| 10
| JOHNDRYDEN |
England's First Poet Laureate (1668) |
| 10
| MERETRIFLE |
When The Dessert Was Brought Out, [zap!] The Pudding Cake Turned Into A ... |
| 10
| OBAMABIDEN |
First Winning Presidential Ticket To Alternate Vowels And Consonants |
| 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
| VONTRAPPFAMILY |
"the Sound Of Music" Household |
| 14
| MARGARETFARRAR |
First Puzzle Editor Of The New York Times |
| 15
| CONGRATULATIONS |
First Part Of A Message Suggested By This Puzzle's Circled Letters |
