| VENUSWILLIAMS | First African-American woman to hold the world #1 ranking in tennis's Open era: 2 wds. |
| RITADOVE | First African-American woman to hold the post of U.S. poet laureate |
| PETERNICOL | The first British squash player to hold the World number one ranking |
| HENRYSEGRAVE | First man to hold the world land and water speed records simultaneously (5,7) |
| SEGRAVE | Henry, first man to hold the world land and water speed records simultaneously (7) |
| VENUS | First name of the First African American woman to be ranked No. 1 in tennis in the Open Era. (5) |
| ALTHEAGIBSON | American tennis player who became the first African-American woman to win a Grand Slam title in 1956 |
| TONIMORRISON | Beloved author who died August 5 and who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize: 2 wds. |
| MAE | Star power: ___ Jemison was the first African-American woman to soar into space |
| MARIE | ___ Maynard Daly, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry |
| DIANNE | Durham who was the first African American woman to win a national title in gymnastics |
| MAMIESMITH | BluesSmith who was the first African-American woman to record a blues song |
| ANN | ___ Petry, first African American woman to write a million-selling novel ("The Street," 1946) |
| LORETTA | ___ Lynch, first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| OHIO | Home of the first man to walk on the moon, the first American to orbit Earth and the first American woman to walk in space |
| RACHELREEVES | Who recently became the first woman to hold the position of UK chancellor of the exchequer? (6,6) |
| CATHERINE | In 1990, Dame ... Tizard became the first woman to hold the rank of Governor General |
| DUFFY | Carol Ann ___, current Poet Laureate - the first woman to hold the post (5) |
| MARGARETBECKETT | First woman to hold the post of UK foreign secretary |
| TYRA | Banks who was the first African-American woman on the cover of GQ |
