| MORIN | First Canadian-born woman to become a nun |
| THEVEIL | Take ___, to become a nun (3,4) |
| PRIMADONNA | In Italy, the first woman to become a singer (5,5) |
| REEVE | Concerning first woman to become a local official |
| ENIDLYONS | First Australian woman to become a federal government minister, Dame ... (4,5) |
| MADAM | ___ C. J. Walker, first American woman to become a self-made millionaire, per Guinness |
| LEE | Rebecca ___ Crumpler (first Black woman to become a medical doctor in the US) |
| ABBOTT | John ___ (First Canadian-born Prime Minister) |
| JOHNABBOTT | The first Canadian-born Prime Minister |
| MASSEY | First Canadian-born Governor General |
| THEODROACOWAN | The first Australian-born woman sculptor, whose bust of Eccleston du Faur, President of their Board of Trustees, was the first commission offered to a Sydney artist by the Art Gallery of NSW? (8,5) |
| YVETTE | First British woman to become Chief Secretary to the Treasury, ... Cooper |
| WILLA | ___ Player, first Black woman to become president of a four-year college |
| ASTOR | Which American-born woman (Nancy ___) was the first woman to sit in Britain's House of Commons? (5) |
| DANNYLARUE | Comic in a frock become a nun already? (5,2,3) |
| ALBRIGHT | The first woman to become United States Secretary of State, Madeleine ... |
| TAKETHEVEIL | It may need time to leave Keith and become a nun (4,3,4) |
| DIANEABBOTT | British shadow home secretary since 2016 and the first black woman to become an MP (5,6) |
| THERESA | Second woman to become British prime minister - With 71- |
| MAY | Second woman to become British prime minister - w 27ac |
