I found an "Oops", but I'm not sure it was intended :-) "Née" means "born", and it's used to indicate a woman's maiden name, as in Jane Doe, née Smith, so it goes before the last name. Am I being a dork and not getting it? Great puzzle!
Paul S 🤓56s · 2022-11-21T20:43:42.119Z
In this case, the "first" name is the original name. Clever bit of misdirection.
The name you were born with is the first name you have.
Alex T 🤓6:18 · 2022-11-21T20:55:33.078Z
Nee goes before your 'first' name, as in the name you had first, before you changed it. Thus the "?"- he tends to use those to show it's not as it reads!
Journalist Farrow who was a college graduate at age 15 and a JD at 21
8A
Tickle pink
9A
Holy ___
Verticali
1D
"Legendary monster usually depicted as a large, hideous, man-like being that eats ordinary human beings, especially infants and children", per Wikipedia
2D
Dystopian sci-fi novel by Hugh Howey that doesn't even have any sheep in it