| LINDBERGH | Charles ___, US aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (9) |
| EARHART | Amelia ___, US aviator who made the first solo female flight across the Atlantic in 1932 (7) |
| WRIGHT | Orville ___, US aviator who, with brother Wilbur, is credited with inventing the aeroplane (6) |
| CHARLESLINDBERGH | US aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| POST | Wiley ?, US aviator who made the first solo flight around the world in 1933 |
| ALCOCK | John W., English aviator who, with A.W. Brown, made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic (6) |
| SPIRITOFSTLOUIS | Name of the aircraft flown by Charles Linbergh i n the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight (6,2,2,5) |
| PARIS | Where Charles Lindbergh flew in the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight |
| ESCALATOR | Nonstop flight? (9) |
| WILEY | Post, who made the first solo flight around the world |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| BLYTH | Paratrooper turned yachtsman who, in 1971 in the ketch British Steel, became the first person to sail solo nonstop westwards around the world (5) |
| PATSY | Cline who was the first solo female artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| FOSSETT | Steve _, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft (7) |
| STEVEFOSSETT | The first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixedwing aircraft (5,7) |
| KNOXJOHNSTON | Robin --- ---, the first solo yachtsman to sail non-stop around the world (4-8) |
| BYRD | Richard E ___, US aviator and polar explorer who died in 1957 (4) |
| CESSNA | Clyde, US aviator who in 1917 designed a monoplane with a cantilever wing (6) |
| ELAL | Airline that offers the most nonstop flights between the U.S. and Israel |
| COODY | Charles ___, US golfer; winner of the 1971 Masters Tournament (5) |
