| XIX | Adele's first album, in Roman numerals |
| TALKTOTHEDOZEN | Speak quickly having lost Adele's first album * (4,2,3,5) |
| SOMEONELIKEYOU | Adele's first number one single in the UK |
| ADIEU | Adele's first to depart before you say goodbye (5) |
| AOXOMOXOA | Palindromic 1969 Grateful Dead album, the first album in history to use 16-track technology |
| JOANBAEZ | Contemporary folk singer who recorded her first album in 1960 and her most recent in 2018 |
| UNO | First album in a Green Day trilogy |
| TORI | Singer Amos whose first album, in 1992, was Little Earthquakes |
| NODOUBT | American group whose eponymous first album in 1992 included the song Big City Train (2, 5) |
| ADELE | Singer whose first album in six years, titled "30," will be released on Nov. 19 |
| OFFSET | Rapper who released "Set It Off" on Friday, his first album in four years |
| DC | AC/___ released 1st album in six years (2) |
| ELASTICA | Group whose first album, released in 1995, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK history |
| HARD | Drop Nineteen's first album in 30 years. It's not soft or heavy rock music (4,5) |
| LIGHT | Drop Nineteen's first album in 30 years. It's not soft or heavy rock music (4.5) |
| NATHANIELRATELIFF | American folk singer/ songwriter whose first album was In Memory of Loss in 2010 (9,8) |
| SMOKEY | Singer Robinson who released "Gasms," his first album of new material in more than a decade, in April, 2023 |
| THEPOLICE | Band formed in London in 1977 whose first album was Outlandos d'Amour, and second Regatta de Blanc (3,6) |
| SIMPLYRED | ____ released their first album, Picture Book, in 1985 |
| URIAHHEEP | Very 'eavy, Very 'umble was the first album released, in 1970, for this English rock band (5,4) |
