| TONYHAWK | Legendary skateboarder who completed the first recorded 900: 2 wds. |
| COOK | Who completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand? (4) |
| SKYBROWN | Teen skateboarder who has won bronze medals for Britain at the past two Olympics (3,5) |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| AMUNDSEN | Explorer who completed the first traverse of the Northwest Passage solely by ship, in 1906 |
| BLERIOT | French aviator who completed the first cross-Channel flight in 1909 |
| YOGESH | Runner who completed the Comrades Marathon in record Indian time. (First name) (6) |
| RORYMCILROY | Northern Irish golfer who completed the career Grand Slam at the 2025 Masters (4,7) |
| TITUS | Roman emperor who completed the Colosseum |
| MCGILLIVRAY | Alexander, Native American chief who completed the Treaty of New York in 1790 (11) |
| FALCONET | Artist who completed the Bronze Horseman in St Petersburg in 1782 (8) |
| SHEINELLE | ___ Jones ("Today" show co-anchor who completed the New York City Marathon on Sunday) |
| TRAUM | Happy ___, American folk musician who cut the first recorded version of Blowin' In The Wind with his group, the New World Singers |
| NUN | One who completed the novitiate |
| AMYROBACH | Newswoman who completed the 2023 New York City Marathon on Sunday (along with beau T.J. Holmes) |
| MAGELLAN | Portuguese explorer who died before one remaining ship from his fleet completed the first voyage round the world in 1519-22 (8) |
| FUCHS | Vivian, explorer who led the expedition which completed the first land crossing of Antarctica (5) |
| SPARTANS | The first recorded use of cryptography for correspondence was used as early as 400 BCE by this ancient people, who employed a cipher device called the scatale for secret communication between military |
| YEAGER | Chuck ___, US test pilot who became the first recorded person to break the sound barrier in 1947 (6) |
| NOVA | The first recorded one was noted by the Greek |
