| IAN | - - - Tempest refereed the first English Premiership match of 2022 (3) |
| ALI | Muhammad who refereed the first WrestleMania |
| LEMAN | Brisbane Broncos' first-ever tryscorer in premiership match, Brett -- (2, 3) |
| UMPIRED | Refereed: - the game |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| JOHNFLORIO | Author of the first English translation of Boccacio, and the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary (1598) |
| STOWONTHEWOLD | Gloucestershire town, site of the final battle of the first English Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| BEHN | Author of Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave; one of the first English women to earn a living as a profes |
| PURCELL | Baroque musician dubbed "Orpheus Britannicus" who became the organist for Westminster Abbey around the age of 20 and composed the first English opera, Dido and Aeneas (7) |
| DRAKE | Sea captain and explorer who commanded the Golden Hind on the first English circumnavigation of the Earth (5) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War who was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1660-67 (9) |
| BRONZE | Lucy, the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award (6) |
| WYATT | Bom at Allington Castle, poet and ambassador at the court of Henry VIII who wrote the first English sonnets (5) |
| CRUSOE | Defoe's literary castaway who lived "eight and twenty years, all alone in an uninhabited island", the title character of what some consider the first English novel (6) |
| ETHELBERT | King of Kent (c552-616), the first English king to convert to Christianity (9) |
| ROANOKE | Island site of the first English settlement in what is now North Carolina (7) |
| ATHELSTAN | King of Wessex and Mercia who eventually became the first English king (9) |
| CABOT | Leader of the first English voyage to North America |
| NASEBY | Decisive battle of the first English Civil War |
| CHARLES | The first English king of this name was crowned in 1625 (7) |
