| EATHART | Amelia, first woman to fly the Atlantic (7) |
| EARHART | Amelia, first woman to fly the Atlantic (7) |
| AMELIAEARHART | American aviator; the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo (6,7) |
| JOHNSON | Amy _, British aviator; the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (7) |
| BLERIOT | French aviator and inventor who was the first person to fly the English Channel, in 1909 (7) |
| BANNERS | Did prohibitionists want to fly the flags? (7) |
| WANTING | Longing to fly, the insect is trapped in (7) |
| WILLING | Prepared to fly the sick in (7) |
| AMELIA | The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (6,7) |
| MUSTANG | Horse rears. Fly the problem? (7) |
| AMYJOHNSON | Who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia? (3,7) |
| LOUISE | ___ Arner Boyd, the first woman to fly over the North Pole |
| ABSCOND | Fly the coop |
| THIBLE | First woman to fly in a free-floating hot-air balloon; or, a dialect word for a stick for stirring broth or porridge (6) |
| PANAMERICAN | First to fly the Boeing 707 |
| STANDARDS | We need to have some criteria on how to fly the flags (9) |
| HEN | One hoping to fly the coop? |
| HOLDOVER | Postpone, to fly the old in (4,4) |
| RISE | Ascent; the surfacing of a fish to take a fly; the appearance of the Sun or the Moon above the horizon; the height of an arch, incline or step; or, an angry or excited response (4) |
| TWEETS | Social media posts like @dril's "awfully bold of you to fly the Good Year blimp on a year that has been extremely bad thus far" |
