First Words
It's from the Latin for "beginning", or a letter like the L in Samuel L. Jackson
an initial
U.S. island bearing the name of a Polynesian demigod
Maui
This 1815 Jane Austen title is just the heroine's first name
Emma
Beliebers
Justin Beiber
This site of a 1781 siege & surrender is part of the Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia
Yorktown
Inception is a synonym for this, also an event at the end of a college career
commencement
Baltic capital 600,000 strong
Riga
Annie is the real name of this Henry James title character who goes by a flowery nickname
Daisy Miller
Sheerios
Ed Sheeran
If you know "owt" about England, you know this historic county with its own accent & vocabulary
(Yorkshire) York
It's the first of a product before copies are made; KFC used it to describe their "first" recipe
original
Archipelago nation about 1,300 miles north of Auckland
Fiji
The names of 2 lovers are in the title of this Shakespeare tragedy set during the Trojan War
Troilus and Cressida
Livies
Olivia Rodrigo
Today it's the only country on the map whose name in English begins with Y
Yemen
To begin the bidding in a card game or at an auction
open
Major industrial river valley region of northwest Germany
Ruhr
This 2024 box office hit is based on Audiard's opera libretto of the same name. It follows a Mexican cartel leader who aims to disappear and transition into a woman.
Emilia Pérez
BTS has its Army & she has her Navy
Rihanna
If you ride a white horse to Whitehorse in Canada, you'll be in this territory
the Yukon Territory
Seen here are the skin cells described by this fundamental adjective
Basal
Colorado ski resort town in Eagle County
Vail
This Aristophanes play is named for the character who inspires the women of Athens & Sparta to end a war between the cities
Lysistrata
Hooligans
Bruno Mars
Site of a historic 1945 conference, this city on the Crimean Peninsula is known for its many health resorts
Yalta