| MEYERS | Ann ___, first woman to sign with the N.B.A. |
| ANN | ___ Meyers, first woman to sign with an NBA team |
| SHERYLSWOOPES | Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first player to sign with the WNBA: 2 wds. |
| ANNMEYERS | Basketball Hall-ofFamer who was the first woman to sign an N.B.A. contract |
| EARHART | Amelia _; first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean (7) |
| ECLAIR | Jenny ___ , first woman to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in 1995 |
| NOVICE | Month that's a danger to driver - the one with the N-plate (6) |
| MAVS | N.B.A. team that shares an arena with the N.H.L.'s Stars, familiarly |
| ASTOR | Nancy ___, first woman to sit as an MP in the House of Commons (5) |
| TABB | Michaela ___, first woman to referee the World Snooker Championship final (4) |
| BIGELOW | Kathryn _, first woman to win the Best Director Oscar (7) |
| WHARTON | Edith ___, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature |
| EDERLE | Gertrude ___, first woman to swim the English Channel |
| CURIE | Marie ___ first woman to win the Nobel Prize |
| ITO | Midori ___, first woman to land a triple axel in competition |
| OTTO | Kristin ___, first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic games |
| WARD | Jesmyn ___, first woman to win two National Book Awards for Fiction |
| WNBA | Org. with the N.Y. Liberty and L.A. Sparks |
| KAZUO | ___ Matsui (former Mets player who was the Japanese infielder to sign with an MLB team) |
| THUMBSUP | A sign with the hand indicating approval or best wishes for success (6,2) |
