| NADIA | ___ Comaneci, a Romanian gymnast became the first to score a perfect 10 in the 1976 games. She then went on to score a 10 six more times. |
| COMANECI | Nadia, the Romanian gymnast who, at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, became the first to score a perfect 10 (8) |
| NEWZEALAND | Twenty-eight African nations boycotted the 1976 Games when this country's Olympic rugby team toured apartheid-era South Africa |
| CHESS | Game she played in the civil service (5) |
| HORSESHOEBATS | As mammals, he or she so cryptically represented? |
| BATS | Mammals he or she so cryptically represented? |
| HORSESHOE | Mammals he or she so cryptically represented? |
| MAURICERICHARD | Canadian ice hockey player who was the first to score 50 goals in one season and the first to score 500 goals in a career |
| NADIACOMANECI | The first gymnast to score a perfect 10 |
| DITYATIN | Who, in the 1980 Moscow Games, became the first to win eight medals, the most in a single edition, which has since been equalled twice by Michael Phelps? (8) |
| JOYNERKERSEE | She was the first to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon |
| VINCECARTER | Atlanta Hawks forward who recently became the first to play in the NBA in four different decades: 2 wds. |
| JAMESDEAN | Rebel Without A Cause actor who became the first to receive a posthumous nomination for an Oscar (5, |
| WYOMING | U.S. state that in 1890 became the first to allow women to vote (7) |
| NASH | In 1954, which US maker became the first to offer air-conditioning in their cars? (4) |
| NORWAY | In 2016, which country became the first to ban any products that contribute to deforestation? (6) |
| ZAHEERABBAS | Bespectacled Pakistani batsman, the first to score three consecutive ODI centuries |
| ALANSHEPARD | US astronaut who became the first to travel in space in 1961 (4,7) |
| POPOV | Oleg ___, Russian clown who in 1955 became the first to tour outside his home country (5) |
| CASSINI | NASA spacecraft that became the first to enter Saturn's orbit in 2004, named after an Italian-born French astronomer (7) |
