| GRIMALDI | Joseph ____ was the first clown to use whiteface make-up |
| OLEGPOPOV | The first clown from the USSR to perform in the Western world |
| ADDISON | Joseph ____ was an essayist, poet and politician, and a co-founder of The Spectator |
| ANTICS | Opposed to first clown's silly pranks (6) |
| BONAPARTE | Joseph ____ was King of Spain, 1808-13 |
| CALMDOWN | Get the mad clown to settle (4,4) |
| WEBB | Howard ____ was the first person to referee the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year |
| COPPI | In 1949, Fausto ___ was the first person to win the 30A and Giro d'Italia in the same year |
| FRASER | Dawn ____ was the first female swimmer to break the "magic minute" for 100m, in 1964 |
| QUANT | Mary ____ was the first winner of the Dress of the Year award, in 1963 |
| EARHART | Amelia ____ was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| WORLDACCORDINGTOGARP | The ____ was the first John Irving novel to be filmed |
| MCRAE | Colin ___ was the first British driver to win the World Rally Championship. (5) |
| PIERROT | Clown to go off stage first |
| ANACRUSTIC | Reminiscence caught by clown to do with early notes? |
| COCONUTS | Clown to stagger back: source of clip-clop sounds? (8) |
| FANATIC | Force clown to entertain American zealot (7) |
| COCODEMER | Clown to cure back (almost) with large nut (4,2,3) |
| OLDHANDS | New Faces, ____ was the first episode in the main series of the sitcom Porridge (3,5) |
| WORRELL | Frank ____ was the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team |
