| BLERIOT | Louis -; aviator who, in a monoplane of his own design, became the first man to fly across the English Channel |
| ENLARGED | Regal ground, during design, became bigger (8) |
| COCHRAN | Jacqueline, aviator who in 1953 became the first woman to break the sound barrier (7) |
| CESSNA | Clyde, US aviator who in 1917 designed a monoplane with a cantilever wing (6) |
| LINDBERGH | US aviator who, in 1927, made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic |
| MORETTI | Italian specialist car maker, active for some 60 years from 1925, initially with own design cars but from the mid-fifties worked with Fiat base vehicles (7) |
| EIDERDOWN | Deride own design for quilt (9) |
| EARHART | First woman to fly across the Atlantic solo who disappeared during a subsequent round-the-world atte |
| SAMUELCODY | American showman who became the first man to fly an aeroplane in Britain in 1908 (6,4) |
| AUSTRALIA | Country in which Harry Houdini became the first man to fly a plane (in 1910) (9) |
| YURIGAGARIN | Cosmonaut who became the first man in space when he made a single orbit of the Earth in Vostok in Ap |
| KITTINGER | Joseph - - - became the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic in a gas balloon in 1984 (9) |
| GAGARIN | What was the surname of Yuri, the Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man in space? (7) |
| GODPARENT | Person who, in a religious ceremony, undertakes the role of mentor in faith to a child being introduced to the church or religion |
| LOUISBLERIOT | First to fly across the English Channel, 1909 |
| AMELIAEARHART | First woman to fly across the Atlantic |
| GAYLE | Chris - - -, West Indies cricketer who in October became the first man to hit 1,000 sixes in T20 (5) |
| MYKOLASALEKNA | Lithuanian athlete who earlier this month became the first man to surpass 75 metres in the discus (7,6) |
| FAULT | Doctor starts to fly across the universe, lamenting poor service (5) |
| FOUR | On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the first man to run the mile in less than this many minutes |
