| RACHELREEVES | Britain's first female chancellor of the exchequer (6,6) |
| ANGELAMERKEL | First female chancellor of Germany |
| ANGELA | -- Merkel, the first female chancellor of Germany (6) |
| MERKEL | "A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution." In 2005 she became the first female chancellor of Germany. Who said this? |
| THATCHERITE | Adhering to the policies of Britain's first female PM (11) |
| BRIGITTEBIERLEIN | Austria's first female chancellor, appointed on an interim basis after the 2019 Ibiza-gate scandal |
| BETHTWEDDLE | Great Britain's first female gymnast to win medals at the European and World Championships and the Olympic Games |
| WOODVILLE | Margaret _, Britain's first female cabinet minister (9) |
| CAROL | Journalist whose mother was Britain's first female Prime Minister, _ Thatcher (5) |
| JACQUI | ____ Smith, Labour politician who was Britain's first female Home Secretary (6) |
| THATCHER | Britain's first female prime minister who held office from 1979 to 1990, Margaret ... |
| BECKETT | Margaret ---, Labour MP who became Britain's first female foreign secretary in 2006 (7) |
| DIESELENGINE | The 1954 Standard Vanguard was Britain's first production car to be powered by one (6,6) |
| MOLLYCAUDERY | Athlete who is Britain's first pole vault world champion (5,7) |
| CRAIGBELLAMY | Welsh footballer who scored Great Britain's first goal at an Olympic Games since 1960 in a 1?1 draw with Senegal in 2012 |
| ANNA | German nation retains female Chancellor |
| VIOLET | Colour of the Algerian iris; or, a pansylike flower of woodlands, hedgerows and old pastures " one of Britains first native plants to bloom after winter (6) |
| HAYNES | Johnny ____ of Fulham was Britain's first footballer to earn A£100 a week, after the 1961 abolition of the A£20 maximum wage |
| RAMSAY | Wig-maker and poet who founded Britain's first circulating library and wrote the The Gentle Shepherd and compilation of Scots songs The Tea- Table Miscellany (6) |
| ESCOFFIER | Considered Britain's first master chef, author of Le Guide Culinaire who invented the peche Melba during his career at the Savoy Hotel, London (9) |
