| PHILLIPS | Bill _____(1st Canuck baseball major leaguer) |
| ORTON | George ___, first Canuck to win an Olympic medal (1900) |
| WORLDSERIES | Annual play-off in the US baseball major league (5,6) |
| ART | ____ Irwin ( Canuck baseball glove inventor) |
| ALOUETTE | First Canuck satellite to fly |
| CLINTON | Bill ___, first Rhodes Scholar to be elected U.S. president (7) |
| THEBIGS | Baseball's major leagues, informally |
| AAA | Level just below baseball's major leagues |
| THE | With 29-Across, baseball's major leagues, in slang |
| BAKR | Abu-___ (1st caliph of Islam) |
| IDIOT | Janet ___, 1st woman to race in Indy 500 |
| BETHELL | Richard ___, 1st Baron Westbury, Lord Chancellor from 1861-65 (7) |
| GRACE | Will & ___ 1st debuted 20 years ago (5) |
| NYERERE | Julius _, 1st president of Tanzania (7) |
| DUCK | Donald ___ 1st appeared in cartoon 85 yrs ago (4) |
| ODA | Bev ___, 1st JapaneseCanadian minister |
| MORTIMER | Roger _, 1st Earl of March who deposed Edward II (8) |
| LEGAMUS | Let's read Latin: Latine ____ (1st pl pres. subj.) |
| CURIE | Marie ___; 1st female Nobel winner |
| CECIL | Robert _, 1st Earl of Salisbury, discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot (5) |
