| TICKETTORIDE | Beatles song which John Lennon called the first heavy metal record ever made |
| IRONMAIDEN | First heavy metal band to have a video air on MTV |
| ANDILOVEHER | "A Hard Day's Night" song that Lennon called McCartney's "first 'Yesterday'" |
| IMAGINE | Which John Lennon song is the best-selling single of his solo career? (7) |
| THELONGANDWINDINGROAD | 1970 Beatles single on which John Lennon played a six-string bass |
| DECEMBER | The month in which John Lennon was shot (8) |
| HEYJUDE | Beatles song which was the topselling single of 1968 in the UK, US, Australia and Canada (3,4) |
| YELLOWSUBMARINE | Beatles song which begins: "In the town where I was born" (6,9) |
| MBE | Brit. honour which John Lennon returned |
| ADA | Lovelace called "the first tech visionary" in the New Yorker |
| LOGICALPOSITIVISM | School of philosophy that grew from the discussions of a group called the "First Vienna Circle" |
| DONQUIXOTE | Book which is often called the first modern novel |
| ELEANOR | Roosevelt whom Truman called the "First Lady of the World" |
| BAMBI | Animated film Stephen King called the first horror movie he ever saw |
| PRUDENCE | Female name in the title of a 1968 Beatles song which was about Mia Farrow's sister (8) |
| MAEWEST | 'I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary,' wrote this actress to the RAF when they named the inflatable life jacket after her (3,4) |
| WHENIMSIXTYFOUR | Beatles song which Paul McCartney wrote when he was 16 (4,2,5,4) |
| LOGICAL | School of philosophy that grew from the discussions of a group called the "First Vienna Circle" (7,10) |
| POSITIVISM | School of philosophy that grew from the discussions of a group called the "First Vienna Circle" (7,10) |
| ROSA | ___ Parks; woman called the "First Lady of Civil Rights" |
