| ZAHA | Hadid who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize |
| PEI | 1983 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner |
| AWARDS | The Pritzker and Stirling are among those given in architecture (6) |
| GIGI | Supermodel Hadid who, with her sister Bella, donated a million dollars to support relief efforts in Gaza |
| BELLA | Model Hadid who wore a spray-on dress at a 2022 Paris fashion show |
| PRITZKER | Jay ___ , US entrepreneur who set up an annual architecture prize in 1979 (8) |
| JBPRITZKER | Illinois' billionaire governor, whose family endowed a famed architecture prize |
| JEN | Cartoonist Sorensen who was the first woman to win the Herblock Prize |
| EDITH | Wharton who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| ALSOP | Marin who was the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting |
| MARGARETCOURT | Australian tennis player who was the first woman to win the Grand Slam in the Open Era: 2 wds. |
| MANTEL | Hilary ___, the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, for the novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies |
| RACHELWHITEREAD | Artist noted for her public sculptures who was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993 (6,9) |
| BERTHA | ______ von Suttner became, in 1905, the first woman to win the Peace Prize; she played a key role in creating the Nobel Peace Prize as well |
| LAGERLOF | Swedish writer who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909 (8) |
| SELMA | Swedish writer who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1909 (5) |
| TONI | Who authored the novel Beloved and became, in 1993, the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize? (first name only) |
| ISABELWILKERSON | "Caste" author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism |
| JANEADDAMS | Social worker who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize |
| WHARTON | Edith ___, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature |