Possible Clues:

• Boy, first in every test, has academic nous
• Record label for Jimmy Dorsey and Louis Armstrong
• ___ Allen Express (Amtrak train in the Northeast)
• Allen who captured Fort Ticonderoga
• 'Benson' actor Phillips
• Hawke or Frome
• Hunt in 'Mission: Impossible'
• '-- Frome', a novel by Edith Wharton
• Joel's co-director
• With 30-Across, Revolutionary patriot