| BITCOIN | For the first time since its 2009 debut, this currency's value reached $100,000 on Dec.4 |
| CMA | Taylor Swift received its 2009 Entertainer of the Yr. award |
| DEPRECIATION | Drop in a currency's value (12) |
| TREATY | Limerick-based ______ United will make their League of Ireland debut this month. (6) |
| ANI | Singer who made her Broadway debut this year as Persephone in Hadestown |
| LEVEL | Height or value reached |
| FRANC | Auditor's candid ___ this currency's not legal tender (5) |
| HALL | Anthony Michael ___ (one of the five main stars of 1985's "The Breakfast Club," who appeared publicly together for the first time since '85 at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo on Saturday |
| SIMONRAIWALUI | Head coach who steered Fiji into the knockout stage of the World Cup for the first time since 2007 (5,8) |
| IPSWICH | Football club which will return to the English Premier League for 2024-25 for the first time since 2002 (7) |
| ELYSEES | Parisians watched helplessly on June 14, 1940, as German troops marched along the Champs ... for the first time since 1871 |
| PORTRUSH | Royal ..., which played host to the British Open for the first time since 1951 in 2019. (8) |
| VINYL | Medium that outsold CDs in 2020 for the first time since the 1980s |
| PARAMORE | Band that played its song "Misery Business" in 2022 for the first time since retiring it four years earlier |
| SCOTLAND | Country appearing at the Euro for the first time since 1996, they held England to a goalless draw in their Group D game |
| STAPLETON | Actress who has reprised her role as Amy Greenwood in Neighbours for the first time since 2005 (7,9) |
| JACINTA | Actress who has reprised her role as Amy Greenwood in Neighbours for the first time since 2005 (7,9) |
| LPS | In 2020, they outsold CDs for the first time since 1986 |
| USPOSTAGE | It fell in 2016 for the first time since 1919 |
| MICHAELJORDAN | This owner of the Charlotte Bobcats was fined $100,000 by the league for comments made during the 2011 NBA lockout |
