| ADAH | In the Old Testament, the first wife of Esau, who bore his firstborn Eliphaz and became the matriarch of the Edomites |
| AMALEK | Descendant of Esau who fought with Israel in Rephidim (Ex. 17:8) (6) |
| ESAU | Biblical father of Eliphaz and Reuel |
| LEAH | In the Old Testament, the first wife of Jacob and elder sister of Rachel, his second wife |
| EDOMITES | Descendants of the biblical Esau who lived south of the Dead Sea around the 13th century BC; later known as the Idumaeans (8) |
| CAIN | In the first book of the Old Testament, the first son of Adam and Eve (4) |
| AARON | In the Old Testament, the first high priest of the Israelites, brother of Moses (5) |
| JOSEPHINEDEBEAUHARNAIS | The first wife of Napoleon I and the first Empress of the French |
| ABRAHAM | In the Old Testament, the first of the patriarchs (7) |
| ENIDMURIELLYONS | Who entered politics after the death of her husband and became the first woman elected to the Austra |
| ADAM | Old Testament, the first man and the husband of eve (4) |
| SAUL | In the Old Testament, the first king of Israel |
| LOUISIV | Given here with his ordinal, who was known as "the Bavarian" and became the Holy Roman Emperor in 13 |
| BOLLE | Won his only GP at Silverstone in 1983 and became the President of the French Motorcycle Federation. (5) |
| WEST | Pen name of Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield, who was the astute mind behind the Aubrey trilogy and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and who bore a son with novelist H G Wells (4) |
| ADAMSRIB | Found in the old gardener's chest? It's the makings of the first wife! (5,3) |
| ISAIAH | (Old Testament) The first of the major Hebrew prophets (8th century BC). |
| EVERT | Sporting rival of Martina Navratilova who won three Wimbledon singles titles and became the first female tennis player to win $1 million in prize money (5) |
| PANT | Which Indian wicketkeeper scored a fearless 89 in Brisbane 2021 and became the first to hit Test centuries in both England and Australia under Kohli's captaincy?(Last Name) (4) |
| PSYCHE | Beautiful mortal princess who married Eros and became the goddess of the soul (6) |
