| HANNAH | Australian golfer Green who became the first woman to win a mixed-gender event. (6) |
| COEDS | Students at a mixed gender school (informal) (2-3) |
| FAIRWAY | Quite a distance to the golfer's green (7) |
| OFFPUTTING | Out of form golfer's green play is disconcerting (3-7) |
| PUTT | Golfer's green stroke |
| HEYSEN | Who, the daughter of a famous South Australian landscape painter, became the first woman to be an Australian war artist? (6) |
| KNIGHT | Painter Dame Laura who, in 1936, broke tradition when she became the first woman to be elected to full membership of the Royal Academy (6) |
| EDERLE | Gertrude, U.S. swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926 (6) |
| DOTTIN | Identify this West Indian cricketer who became the first woman to score a century in T20 Internationals (6) |
| DIANNE | Durham who was the first African American woman to win a national title in gymnastics |
| ROBSON | First name of Mr Green who played Dr Tony Hill in Wire In The Blood (6) |
| CARDIB | First woman to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album as a solo artist |
| HOPMAN | ___ Cup, international mixed gender indoor tennis tournament played in Australia (6) |
| RIVERS | In 1986, which comedian became the first woman to host a network late-night TV talk show in the US? |
| HARRIS | "No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back." In 2021 she became the first woman to serve as U.S. vice president. Who said |
| HUGHIE | First name of Mr Green who hosted Opportunity Knocks from 1949 until 1978( 6) |
| PETRAS | Kim _, first transgender woman to win a Grammy award (6) |
| DOLLAR | Value of the coin by which Susan B. Anthony became the first woman depicted on U.S. currency on July 2, 1979 |
| LAGERLOF | Swedish author of the children's classic The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, who became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (8) |
| CALDWELL | "Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do." In 1976 she became the first woman conductor of a performance by the Metropolitan Opera in N |
