| SYLLABUS | First-day-of-class handout |
| LATEPASS | First-class handout, perhaps? |
| SYLLABI | First-class handouts? |
| OMER | Period of seven weeks extending from the second day of Passover to the first day of Shavuoth (Pentecost); from Hebrew, 'sheaf' (4) |
| CALENDAR | Word for a book of accounts due on the first day of a Roman month originally, later an almanac, chart, diary or other system of divisions of the year (8) |
| NEWYEAR | First day of of the year (3,4) |
| NEWKID | Object of curiosity on the first day of school |
| POR | First-day-of-Spanish-class word |
| APR | Mo. of Iceland's First Day of Summer |
| BIRTH | First day of the rest of your life |
| NEMO | Film character whose first line is "First day of school!" |
| RULED | "If I ... the world, every day would be the first day of spring; Every heart would have a new song t |
| INAJIFFY | First day of the year coming up, full of uncertainty almost straightaway (2,1,5) |
| APRILFOOL | Any victim of a prank played on the first day of the fourth month (5,4) |
| REST | "Today is the first day of the ___ of your life" |
| MAYDAY | International Workers' Day and the traditional first day of spring |
| DREWBLOOD | What the vampires did on the first day of art class? |
| MAY | Name for hawthorn; its blossom, traditionally gathered to celebrate the first day of a month named after a fertility goddess of springtime; or, one's bloom, early life, flush or prime (3) |
| ASH | The Ai ligature; an oleaceous tree bearing bunches of keys; cinders, such as those traditionally sprinkled on the first day of Lent; or, a pallid hue (3) |
| PEARTREE | Where one of the Partridge family may be found on the first day of Christmas? (4,4) |
