| 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 |
| STLEGER | One of the five classics of the flat-racing season and the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
| MARK | Identify the first name of this player who became the first player to score 50+ runs in T20IS for two different countries. (4) |
| LOCKWOOD | Netflix thriller with only one season, - & Co. (8) |
| LINNET | Winger having scored 50 goals? (6) |
| HASSLE | Bother to score 50 in Ashes debacle (6) |
| ADAMS | Author of books including Watership Down, Nature Through the Seasons and The Ship's Cat (5) |
| POINT | Brayden ___ Canadian ice hockey player who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 2020 |
| ALEX | ___ Pietrangelo Canadian ice hockey player who scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal in 2019 |
| PANDEV | Goran ___, footballer who in 2021 became the first Macedonian to score 100 goals in one of the top five European football leagues |
| 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) |
| SCOTSMAN | Flying -, Sir Nigel Gresley's LNER Class A3 that was the first locomotive to clock 100 mph and the first to circumnavigate the globe (8) |
| HILLEL | Rabbi, born in Babylonia, who was president of the Sanhedrin and the first to formulate principles of biblical interpretation |
| FISHER | Mike ___ Canadian-American former ice hockey player who is married to the American singer Carrie Underwood |
| SHOHEIOHTANI | First MLB player with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in one season (... letters 2-4) |
| AJARAIE | Who was declared Player of the ISL League for the 2024-25 season and who also won the Golden Boot? (7) |
| JOYNERKERSEE | She was the first to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon |
| BOBBYOOR | Canadian ice hockey legend; awarded the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player three times in the 1970s (5,3) |
| PETERSCUDAMORE | The first UK National Hunt jockey to record 150 wins in one season, in 1988-89 |
