Crossword clues for First part of the first part:
- BACKTOBACK
- Consecutive ... and a hint to what can follow the first parts and precede the second parts of the starred clues' answers
- COMMONFRONT
- United stand ... and what the first part of the answers to starred clues literally can have
- ATWORLDSEND
- The third "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie (and where you might find the first part of 18-, 24-, 34-, 40- and 48-Across)
- TURTLEDOVE
- This animal presumably spends its entire life in a shell ... correction: just the first part of its life
- STRINGSATTACHED
- Proposal conditions ... and what the first parts of the answers to starred clues all can have
- GROUP
- With 59-Across, "Is this where the bands are going to play?" ("No, it's the first part of the World Cup")
- PASSENGERS
- First part of an erroneous "Christian Science Monitor" headline published on April 15, 1912