| NINTHSYMPHONY | 14 down's was the first such to have vocal parts in it (5,8) |
| PAAR | Hugh Downs was his announcer |
| FROG | Earliest known land animal to have vocal cords |
| BLOODBANK | The first such storage for supplies of the recently discovered types A, B, AB and O was established in a hospital in Leningrad in 1937 - the Red Cross would run it today (5,4) |
| TRANSATLANTIC | Alcock and Brown made first such flight (13) |
| ASTEROID | Ceres was the first such heavenly body discovered in 1801 (8) |
| IMPACT | Tushar Deshpande was the first such player in IPL. (6) |
| NORMAN | Pevensey Castle was the first such one built in England (6) |
| MUTINYACT | The first such law, introduced in William and Mary's reign in 1689, restrained the monarch's control over military forces (6,3) |
| GOSPEL | Matthew wrote the first such book by the four evangelists (6) |
| TEN | Score earned by Nadia Comaneci on July 18, 1976, the first such score ever achieved by a gymnast in an Olympic event |
| PSALM | Job is finished before the first such work appears |
| ROMANNUMERAL | I will be seen as the first such classical character |
| BEDSIDE | One needs such to avoid having the rest hemmed in (7) |
| TESTOFTIME | Tailor set to fit me - stand such to remain functional (4,2,4) |
| ENTERTAINER | Clown is one such to go in but retain way out (11) |
| OPERA | Person involved in vocal parts of Tosca is producing this (5) |
| HERALD | Usher in old king using different vocal parts (6) |
| TESSITURA | Meaning "texture", a word used to refer to the average range of pitches in a melody, vocal part or voice (9) |
| SUGGESTED | Having put forward the plan, Gus gets Ed to take part in it (9) |
