| TMZ | Hollywood website that was the first to report Michael Jackson's death in 2009 |
| TASS | News agency that was the first to report on Sputnik |
| RICHARDSON | Actress daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who was married to Liam Neeson at the time of her death in 2009 following a skiing accident (7,10) |
| NATASHA | Actress daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who was married to Liam Neeson at the time of her death in 2009 following a skiing accident (7,10) |
| NAPSTER | File-sharing website that was shut down by court order in 2001 (7) |
| EBAY | Website that was originally known as AuctionWeb |
| SPORTSCASTER | Spectator first to report the boundaries of Stokes? Possibly |
| VIEWER | Panorama first to report on end of the Observer |
| CABLECAR | Transport suspended - Telegraph roughly first to report (5-3) |
| INTHERAIN | Song by The Move that was the first single to be played on BBC Radio 1 when the station was launched in 1967 (7,2,3,4) |
| FLOWERS | Song by The Move that was the first single to be played on BBC Radio 1 when the station was launched in 1967 (7,2,3,4) |
| SCOTSMAN | Flying -, Sir Nigel Gresley's LNER Class A3 that was the first locomotive to clock 100 mph and the first to circumnavigate the globe (8) |
| OBERLIN | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| FINLAND | European country that was the first to give women the right to vote in 1906 (7) |
| GETBACK | 1969 single that was the first Beatles song to be released in stereo in the United States |
| YOUARENOTALONE | Michael Jackson song that was the first ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| SHALOMMEIRTOWER | Tel Aviv skyscraper that was the first to be built in the Mideast |
| PEPSI | Soda that was the first American brand to be sold widely in the Soviet Union |
| LEGAVROCHE | London restaurant that was the first in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars (2,8) |
| MALAYSIA | Kuala Lumpur's country that was the first Asian country to host the Commonwealth Games in 1998 |
