| First of a cautionary trio | 26 |
| First of a dead-end trio? | 25 |
| First of a Disney trio | 22 |
| First of a doubleheader | 23 |
| First of a familiar trio | 24 |
| First of a famous sailing trio | 30 |
| First of a famous trio | 22 |
| First of a game trio | 20 |
| First of a gender | 17 |
| First of a hard-partying trio | 29 |
| First of a Hebrew series | 24 |
| First of a Hope-Crosby film series | 34 |
| First of a journalist's five W's | 40 |
| First of a kind | 15 |
| First of a Kipling trio | 23 |
| First of a Latin I trio | 23 |
| First of a Latin threesome | 26 |
| First of a Latin trio | 21 |
| First of a literary set | 23 |
| First of a much-quoted trio | 27 |
| First of a musical trio | 23 |
| First of a no-no septet | 23 |
| First of a noted trio | 21 |
| First of a pair of letters swapped six times in this puzzle's theme entries | 79 |
| First of a pair of lists | 24 |
| First of a planned 26-book mystery series | 41 |
| First of a railway trio | 23 |
| First of a Roman trio | 21 |
| First of a series | 17 |
| First of a string of 13 | 23 |
| First of a succession of 13 | 27 |
| First of a traveling threesome | 30 |
| First of a trilogy | 18 |
| First of a trilogy? | 19 |
| First of a trio | 15 |
| First of a trio from the Litany | 31 |
| First of a vowel fivesome? | 26 |
| First of all | 12 |
| First of all of us | 18 |
| First of all? | 13 |
| First of an ancient trio | 24 |
| First of an old film septet | 27 |
| First of August? | 16 |
| First of billions | 17 |
| First of Caesar's claims | 28 |
| First of England's Stuart kings | 35 |
| First of fifty | 14 |
| First of five in "Hamlet" | 35 |
| First of five poker hands | 25 |
| First of five Ws | 16 |
| First of four Chuck Noll championships | 38 |
| First of four giant syllables | 29 |
| First of four giant syllables? | 30 |
| First of four Holy Roman emperors | 33 |
| First of HOMES | 14 |
| First of its kind? | 18 |
| First of many body parts in "Alouette" | 48 |
| First of Mickey's wives | 27 |
| First of multitudes | 19 |
| First of nine in "Strange Interlude" | 46 |
| First of one gender | 19 |
| First of Scrooge's visions | 30 |
| First of September? | 19 |
| First of seven (so far) | 23 |
| First of seven? | 15 |
| First of several? | 17 |
| First of six popes | 18 |
| First of six? | 13 |
| First of spring? | 16 |
| First of the Astaire-Rogers films: 1933 | 39 |
| First of the Biblical high priests | 34 |
| First of the cardinals | 22 |
| First of the Cavalier poets | 27 |
| First of the eighth century | 27 |
| First of the first pair | 23 |
| First of the five W's | 25 |
| First of the Greeks? | 20 |
| First of the James Bond films | 29 |
| First of the Latter Prophets | 28 |
| First of the Maj. Prophets | 26 |
| First of the major Hebrew prophets | 34 |
| First of the Major Prophets | 27 |
| First of the minor prophets | 27 |
| First of the N.T. | 17 |
| First of the Pevensie children to visit Narnia | 46 |
| First of the Plantagenet kings | 30 |
| First of the toe trio | 21 |
| First of the two sisters Jacob married | 38 |
| First of the U.S.A. | 19 |
| First of the year in Mexico City | 32 |
| First of three consecutive rhyming letters | 42 |
| First of three in a pencil/paper game | 37 |
| First of three Mets to hit a lead-off home run in a World Series Game 3 (he did it in '69, Garrett in '73, and Dykstra in '86) | 138 |
| First of three O's, perhaps | 31 |
| First of three to be put out | 28 |
| First of three? | 15 |
| First of trillions | 18 |
| First of twelve popes | 21 |
| First of twelve signs | 21 |
| First of two baseball games | 27 |