| BROOKLANDS | Name of the world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit (10) |
| LEMANS | The world's first purpose built motor-racing circuit opened for the French Grand Prix in this town |
| NORMANCROSS | --- --- Prison, the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, built in Cambridgeshire in 1796-97 (6,5) |
| PALMANOVA | One of the first purpose-built tourist resorts in Mallorca, located in the Calvia municipality in the south-west of the island (5,4) |
| TOWINGPATH | What does racing driver want? Answer: the short, purpose-built track |
| DARLINGTON | Terminus of the world's first passenger railway |
| CHAMBERS | George III's architect who designed the pagoda and orangery at Kew Gardens for Princess Augusta and the Royal Academy's first purpose-built home, Somerset House (8) |
| GREATWESTERN | IK Brunel ship, the first purpose-built transatlantic steam vessel (5,7) |
| DULWICH | District in Southwark, London, that is home to England's first purpose-built public art gallery (7) |
| TELE | Made by Fender, the common name of the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar (4) |
| BEDLAM | Which word, meaning uproar and confusion, comes from the name of the world's first psychiatric hospital? (6) |
| NORWOOD | Name of the world's first entirely AI actress, Tilly _ (7) |
| EYE | The ___ of the World, first book in The Wheel of Time (3) |
| EXCHANGE | Royal -; founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1565, London's first purpose-built trading centre (8) |
| URUK | Sumerian name of a great Mesopotamian city, one of the world's first (4) |
| MALLARD | Bird known to the Victorians as a wild duck; or, the name of the world's fastest steam locomotive (7) |
| ELON | First name of the world's richest man |
| SAHARA | Name of the world's largest desert. It fills almost all of northern Africa. (6) |
| AYERS | Former name of the world's largest monolith, Uluru, of central Australia (5,4) |
| ROCK | Former name of the world's largest monolith, Uluru, of central Australia (4) |
