| KAMALAHARRIS | California attorney general elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| TAMMYDUCKWORTH | Illinois congresswoman and Iraq War veteran elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| MAGGIEHASSAN | New Hampshire governor elected to her first term as a US senator in 2016: 2 wds. |
| EISENHOWER | SEATO was one of the accomplishments of his first term as president (10) |
| SAYONARA | 1957 film starring Marlon Brando as a US Air Force pilot in Japan who falls for a local woman |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex that opened in 1943 as a US Air Force bomber base (8) |
| PALOMA | ___ Faith, singer who gave birth to her first child in December (6) |
| ZEROTH | Of a term in a series before the first term (6) |
| SIX | Number of years in a US senator's term |
| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply base in World War II |
| UNION | Global leader in money transfer services that began as a US telegraph company, Western ... |
| REDCORNER | 1997 film starring Richard Gere as a US businessman wrongfully tried for murder in China |
| LAD | "When I was a ___ I served a term As office boy to an Attorney's firm." Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore (3) |
| LINCOLN | Oscar-winning film starring Daniel Day-lewis as a US president (7) |
| HOLYLOCH | Body of seawater at the Cowal Peninsula, Scotland, once used as a US nuclear submarine base (4, 4) |
| GUERRERO | Vicente ?, revolutionary general elected president of Mexico in 1829 (8) |
| PERON | Juan ___, general elected three times as President of Argentina |
| GROLSCHMEOUT | Valley girl's reaction to her first beer? |
| HURTSSOGOOD | Mom's reaction to her first mild contractions? [John Cougar, 1982] |
| DEBUT | Unabated Ana went to her first performance (5) |
