| TABB | Michaela ___, first woman to referee the World Snooker Championship final (4) |
| WEBB | Howard ____ was the first person to referee the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year |
| ZHAO | Who recently became the first Chinese player to win the world snooker championship? (4) |
| RORY | In 2009, ____ McLeod was the first black player to qualify for the World Snooker Championship |
| DOWN | Gaelic football club that last won the All Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in 1994 (4) |
| COEL | Michaela _, star of 2018 BBC TV drama series Black Earth Rising (4) |
| OTTO | Kristin ___, first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic games |
| WARD | Jesmyn ___, first woman to win two National Book Awards for Fiction |
| DINGJUNHUI | Chinese snooker player who lost to Mark Selby in the 2016 World Championship final (4,6) |
| PREFACE | Step across referee: the first to go in the book? (7) |
| NIGELSHORT | The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final |
| MURPHY | Shaun, English snooker player who lost to Mark Selby in the 2021 World Championship final (6) |
| ECLAIR | Jenny ___ , first woman to win the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in 1995 |
| WEBSTER | Player scored a resilient half-century (72) in Australia's first innings on Day 1 of the World Test Championship Final at Lord's, stabilizing the innings after early collapses.(Last Name) (7) |
| LUKEHUMPHRIES | Darts player who won the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship final (4,9) |
| DAVIS | Who won the world snooker championship six times in the 1980s? (6) |
| MARKSELBY | Winner of the World Snooker Championship in 2014, 2016 and 2017 (4,5) |
| SELBY | Who won the world snooker championship for the fourth time earlier this month? (5) |
| DA | Who won the world snooker championship six times in the 1980s? (6) (5) |
| CRUCIBLE | The ___, theatre in Sheffield that stages the World Snooker Championship (8) |
