| First president to visit the West Coast while in office | 55 |
| First president whose name ends in a vowel other than E or Y | 60 |
| First rap group to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone | 55 |
| First rapper to win the Best Original Song Academy Award | 56 |
| First recipient of the Harvard AIDS Initiative Leadership Award | 63 |
| First rental car company to be located at an airport | 52 |
| First rock band whose members received Kennedy Center Honors | 60 |
| First satellite to transmit a phone call through space, 1962 | 60 |
| First sch. to win 100 NCAA championships, across all sports | 59 |
| First sequel to win Best Picture, with "The" | 54 |
| First site to report on the leaked Donald Sterling tapes | 56 |
| First sitting president to have his photograph taken | 52 |
| First song on Genesis's "Genesis" album | 53 |
| First song on Radiohead's "OK Computer" | 53 |
| First song on the Beatles' "White Album" | 54 |
| First sporting company to sponsor an African-American | 53 |
| First st. to join the Union after the end of the Civil War | 58 |
| First state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory | 62 |
| First steamship with a planned circumnavigation of the globe | 60 |
| First Super Bowl that was actually called a Super Bowl | 54 |
| First Super Bowl to be officially called "Super Bowl" | 63 |
| First thing zoo employees learn at the reptile house? | 53 |
| First tight end elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame | 56 |
| First track off Scorpions' "Crazy World" | 54 |
| First treasure found in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 59 |
| First U.S. secretary of war (for whom a fort was named) | 55 |
| First video game with a selectable level of difficulty | 54 |
| First wife of Bill on HBO's "Big Love" | 52 |
| First woman Supreme Court Justice, _____ Day O'Connor | 57 |
| First woman to appear on the front of a Wheaties box | 52 |
| First woman to land a triple axel in a major competition | 56 |
| First woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry | 52 |
| First word in a ''fighting machine'' phrase | 59 |
| First word in a children's random selection rhyme | 53 |
| First word in Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" | 57 |
| First word in the English lyrics of "Frère Jacques" | 64 |
| First word in the theme song for "The Banana Splits" | 62 |
| First word of ''California Dreamin''' | 57 |
| First word of ''Send in the Clowns'' | 52 |
| First word of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 65 |
| First word of "Frere Jacques" (okay, the English version) | 67 |
| First word of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | 60 |
| First word of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | 57 |
| First word of a kids' rhyme that ends with "moe" | 62 |
| First word of a song whose last word is "Dominum" | 59 |
| First word of Dante's ''Inferno'' | 53 |
| First word of every episode title of "Friends" | 56 |
| First word of Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride" | 65 |
| First word of Swinburne's "March: An Ode" | 55 |
| First word of the 2012 World Series champions' city | 55 |
| First word of the Beach Boys' hit "Kokomo" | 56 |
| First word of the Beatles' "Nowhere Man" | 54 |
| First word of the English "Frere Jacques" lyrics | 58 |
| First word of the theme song title for Archie and Edith | 55 |
| First word of the theme song to "The Monkees" | 55 |
| First word of Virgil's "Aeneid," in Latin | 55 |
| First word on the Journey album "Departure" | 53 |
| First word said by a referee after reviewing a challenge, often | 63 |
| First word sung on the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" album | 67 |
| First words Susan Boyle sang on "Britain's Got Talent" | 68 |
| First-ever singer with a Greatest Hits album, in 1958 | 53 |
| First-nameless private eye in Robert B. Parker mysteries | 56 |
| Fiscal event scheduled for January 1, 2013, colloquially | 56 |
| Fish co-owned by pianist Myra and ex-Jets owner Leon? | 53 |
| Fish delicacy requiring a special license to prepare | 52 |
| Fish that attaches itself to whales, sharks, turtles, ships, etc. | 65 |
| Fish that can move equally well forward and backward | 52 |
| Fish that lays an egg case called a mermaid's purse | 55 |
| Fish that migrates from seawater to freshwater and back | 55 |
| Fish that sounds like it should be in a group of four | 53 |
| Fish that's also a talk show host with one letter missing | 61 |
| Fish voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in "Finding Nemo" | 58 |
| Fish voiced by Willem Dafoe in "Finding Nemo" | 55 |
| Fish whose name comes from the Old English for "spear" | 64 |
| Fisherman's ''OK, I guess I'll do it'' | 62 |
| Fisherman's remark after catching a cod relative? | 53 |
| Fishing item banned in international waters by the UN in 1993 | 61 |
| Fitness franchise whose motto is “Know your own strength” | 65 |
| Fitzgerald who sang "I'm Making Believe" | 54 |
| Five gold medals in speedskating at the 1980 Olympics? | 54 |
| Five of them are hidden in this puzzle's longest answers | 60 |
| Five W's and ___ (reporter's precepts, briefly) | 55 |
| Five-time "Hill Street Blues" Emmy nominee | 52 |
| Five-time "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit cover girl | 60 |
| Five-time American Crossword Puzzle Tournament winner | 53 |
| Five-time N.C.A.A. basketball champs from the A.C.C. | 52 |
| Five-time N.H.L. scoring leader of the 1990s-'00s | 53 |
| Five-time U.S. Figure Skating Championships gold medalist | 57 |
| Five-time U.S. presidential candidate in the early 1900s | 56 |
| Fivesome found in the five Tony winners in this puzzle | 54 |
| Fivesome seen in order in the answer to each starred clue | 57 |
| Fix part of dinner with lettuce, carrots, peppers, etc. | 55 |
| Fixed rate that includes room, breakfast and one other meal | 59 |
| Flagship station of the old Mutual Broadcasting System | 54 |
| Flamenco instrument requiring somewhat Americanized piano fingerings? | 69 |
| Flamingo's function, in "Alice in Wonderland" | 59 |
| Flanders who said, "Boys, get the alcohol-free alcohol" | 65 |
| Flapper's "Excellent!" (with "the") | 59 |
| Flatow who hosts NPR's "Science Friday" | 53 |
| Flatware company, or the New York community where it began | 58 |