| The Fondas | 10 |
| The following: Abbr. | 20 |
| The following ones: Abbr. | 25 |
| The following | 13 |
| The folks, slangily | 19 |
| The folks yonder | 16 |
| The folks over there | 20 |
| The folks | 9 |
| The Folger Lady, Mrs. _____ | 27 |
| The Fog actress | 19 |
| The Flying Wallendas, e.g. | 26 |
| The Flying Scotsman, e.g. | 25 |
| The Flying Finn | 15 |
| The Flying Dutchman, for one | 28 |
| The Flying Dutchman, e.g. | 25 |
| The Flying Dutchman's milieu | 32 |
| The Flying Dutchman's love | 30 |
| The Flying Dutchman painter | 30 |
| The Flying Cloud, of old autodom | 32 |
| The Flushing Line is part of it: Abbr. | 38 |
| The flu, in 1918 | 16 |
| The flu, for one | 16 |
| The Florida Keys, essentially | 29 |
| The Flintstones' pet | 24 |
| The Flintstones' favorite track star? | 41 |
| The Flintstones' favorite dancer? | 37 |
| The Flintstones' favorite Congressman? | 42 |
| The Flintstones' favorite baker? | 36 |
| The Flintstones' "snorkasaurus" | 45 |
| The Fleetwoods, for example | 27 |
| The Fleetwoods, e.g., of 50's-60's pop | 46 |
| The flatfoot ___ | 16 |
| The flash in flashy jewelry? | 28 |
| The Flamingos "I ___ You" | 35 |
| The Flaming Lips, e.g. | 22 |
| The Flames' home, before CGY | 32 |
| The flag | 8 |
| The Fixx felt "The ___" | 33 |
| The Fixx "___ Ourselves?" | 35 |
| The Fixx & Madonna hits w/same title | 40 |
| The five, at dice | 17 |
| The Five ___, 1950s million-selling doo-wop group | 49 |
| The Five ___ (1950's group) | 31 |
| The Five ___ ("In the Still of the Night" group) | 58 |
| The five vowels | 15 |
| The Five Pillars of ___ | 23 |
| The five of trumps | 18 |
| The five of every Shakespeare play | 34 |
| The five of "Macbeth" | 31 |
| The five of "Hamlet" | 30 |
| The five in this puzzle | 23 |
| The five in a lustrum | 21 |
| The Fishes of the zodiac | 24 |
| The fish in John McPhee's "The Founding Fish" | 59 |
| The first: Abbr. | 16 |
| The first X? | 12 |
| The first X-rated Bond film? | 28 |
| The first X of XXX | 18 |
| The first X of X-X-X | 20 |
| The first words of the answers to asterisked clues are types of them | 68 |
| The first words of asterisked clues are kinds of them | 53 |
| The first voice you hear in "The Wizard of Oz" | 56 |
| The first U.S. National Park | 28 |
| The first two Tudor kings | 25 |
| The first two periodic table entries | 36 |
| The first Tudor Henry | 21 |
| The first to use acne medicine? | 31 |
| The first to stab Caesar | 24 |
| The first to hear "Madam, I'm Adam" | 49 |
| The first to go on a strike, usually | 36 |
| The first talkie, with "The" | 38 |
| The first T of AC/DC's "TNT"? | 43 |
| The first T in TNT | 18 |
| The first string | 16 |
| The First State: Abbr. | 22 |
| The First State (abbr.) | 23 |
| The first st. | 13 |
| The first sound in Gary, but not Gerald | 39 |
| The first sixteen rows, perhaps | 31 |
| The first six inches of a foot-long? | 36 |
| The first sign | 14 |
| The first shepherd in the Bible | 31 |
| The first second son | 20 |
| The first requirement | 21 |
| The first prophet of God, in Islam | 34 |
| The first positive non-Fibonacci number | 39 |
| The first place | 15 |
| The first piece of information ever learned about you during your lifetime, probably | 84 |
| The first people to try crosswords | 34 |
| The first people to play crosswords | 35 |
| The first part missing in the author's name ___ Vargas ___ | 62 |
| The first or last one can be a doozy | 36 |
| The First or Fourteenth, for example | 36 |
| The first or fifth letter of George | 35 |
| The first ones last | 19 |
| The first one, bought by the Bulova Watch Co. for $9, ran on 7/1/1941 | 69 |
| The first one went off in 1952 | 30 |
| The first one was performed by Aleksei Leonov on 3/18/1965 | 58 |
| The first one was made at what is now Chelsea Market | 52 |
| The first one was founded in 1824 Eng. to protect carriage horses | 65 |