| SHELTON | As a teenager she was accepted as a singer with Ambrose & His Orchestra and was the first to sing th |
| MASHERSDEGREE | She was accepted into the Potato Cooking Academy, and eventually earned her... |
| RONAS | Ambrose and others |
| SEVER | Break off with Ambrose, very obsessive (5) |
| ETHELMERMAN | She was a singer with a powerful voice and a star of stage and screen who sang I Got Rhythm and Alex |
| ADAMEVE | According to the bible, ... was the first man and ... was the first woman (4, 3) |
| LINNAEUS | Latinised name of the botanist who formalised binomial nomenclature and was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals (8) |
| AMALFITANCODE | Compiled in the 11th century, what collection of maritime law was accepted as a model for centuries? |
| ALTO | From the Italian for "high", a high falsetto male voice, equal in compass to the lowest female voice; or, a singer with such a range |
| GALTON | Polymath cousin of Charles Darwin who coined the alliterative phrase "nature versus nurture" and was the first to show how fingerprints could be used to identify individuals (6) |
| HUMBOLDT | Climbing Andean mountains and exploring Amazonian rainforests, naturalist who wrote Cosmos and was the first to postulate climate change (8) |
| BESSEL | Astronomer who predicted the existence of an eighth planet and was the first successfully to measure stellar parallax (6) |
| LAMELOBALL | Hornets point guard who posted his first triple-double as a teenager in 2021 the youngest ever in the NBA: 2 wds. |
| MARKELLEFULTZ | Magic point guard and 2017 first overall draft pick who posted his first triple-double as a teenager in 2018: 2 wds. |
| AMYSTUDT | English singer-songwriter who had top ten hits with Misfit and Under the Thumb as a teenager |
| MOWGLI | Orphan who was accepted as a Wolf Cub (6) |
| GOTIN | Was accepted as a member |
| MAYAANGELOU | Poet who began her career as a singer with the 1957 album "Miss Calypso" |
| JEROMEFLYNN | English actor who had success as a singer with his Soldier Soldier co-star Robson Green |
| GLUE | Art supply eaten as a kid and sniffed as a teenager |
