| DOUG | Emhoff, who's the first second gentleman |
| DOUGEMHOFF | First second gentleman [3] |
| ELLA | Model Emhoff who's Kamala Harris's stepdaughter |
| IFFY | Missing the first, second is second-rate (4) |
| REJECT | Jeer wildly about the first second (6) |
| ABEL | The first second son |
| USC | Where second gentleman Doug Emhoff got his J.D. |
| RHYME | What the first, second and fifth lines in a limerick do |
| LIMERICK | Form of comic verse of five lines in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme (8) |
| BOYDORR | Who, the First Baron of Brechin Mearns, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949? (4,3) |
| ALVARAALTO | Architect who's the first person in "Britannica" |
| LEE | Suni who's the first Hmong-American Olympian |
| LARISSA | A second gentleman, a liberal from the East in Greek city (7) |
| CHRISOM | Church has second gentleman turning up for baptismal robe |
| MORRIS | Second gentleman takes hand - pirouettes for dance (6) |
| EMHOFF | Second Gentleman Doug |
| KLAYTHOMPSON | Warriors guard who's the first player in NBA history to score 60 points in under 30 minutes of play: 2 wds. |
| AALTO | Finnish architect Alvar who's the first entry in many encyclopedias |
| YUDARVISH | Five-time All-Star who's the first Japanese pitcher with 2,000 strikeouts in Major League Baseball |
| CERIMON | He was a lord of Ephesus. In Pericles (act 3, scene 2), Second Gentleman of Ephesus says, "Your honor has through Ephesus pour'd forth/ Your charity,... / Your purse, still open, hath built Lord ___." |