| LINDBERGH | He was the first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (9) |
| EARHART | The first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic, Amelia ... |
| BYRD | US naval officer who claimed to have been the first to fly over the North Pole |
| 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) |
| SIREDMUND | With Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, ... Hillary (3,6) |
| NETANYAHU | He was the first prime minister of Israel to have been born there, after its creation as a state (9) |
| HANKSTRAM | He was the first coach miked during the Super Bowl |
| WILEYPOST | The first aviator to fly solo around the world (5,4) |
| WILEY | Aviator Post who was first to fly solo around the world |
| CHARLESLINDBERGH | US aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| 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) |
| LOUISBLERIOT | First to fly across the English Channel, 1909 |
| AMELIA | Earhart who was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| AMELIAEARHART | Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic? (6,7) |
| TYLER | He was the first vice president to become president upon the death of the chief executive (#10, 1841 |
| ERICCLAPTON | For his part in The Yardbirds and Cream and for his solo career, he was the first musician inducted three times into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (4,7) |
| WOODS | He was the first golfer to win consecutively the sport's four major tournaments |
| ADAM | According to the Bible, he was the first man |
| ADAMANT | He was the first to have a little one who was unyielding (7) |
