| CRAVEN | John _; first presenter of Newsround (6) |
| ANGELA | ___ CBE, newsreader and one of the first presenters of Top Gear (6,6) |
| BADAWI | Zeinab _, newsreader who was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News (6) |
| FACTOR | The X ____, reality TV series whose first presenter was Kate Thornton (6) |
| ABBOTT | John ___ (First Canadian-born Prime Minister) |
| MACKAY | John ____( first white man to live in BC) |
| DRYDEN | John ___, first Poet Laureate |
| KALE | First presenter of The X Factor, _ Thornton (4) |
| GROSSMAN | First presenter of the TV programme MasterChef in 1990 (8) |
| WILLIAMGSTEWART | First presenter of 'Fifteen to One' (7,1,7) |
| KATETHORNTON | ____ was the first presenter of The X Factor |
| OREODUBA | Former Newsround presenter and winner of Strictly in 2016 (3,5) |
| REITH | John _, first general manager (1922-7) and first director general (1927-1938) of the BBC (5) |
| BYRON | John ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5) |
| WINTHROP | John ___, first governor of the Massachusetts bay colony |
| BBC | Airer of the children's news program "Newsround" since 1972 |
| GLENN | John ___, first American to orbit the Earth (5) |
| ADAMS | John ___, first US VP (5) |
| THROWER | One of the first presenters on Gardeners' World who also worked on Blue Peter (7) |
| FASHANU | John _, first star to be eliminated from Dancing On ice 2023 (7) |
