| ROSELLE | New Jersey village that was the first ever to be incandescently lit |
| MARIAH | ___ Carey, singer and the first ever to be a good sport in CK (pictured bottom) (6) |
| UKELELE | One is played by a plucky sort from Neighbours - the first ever to be covered by women's magazine (7) |
| YOUARENOTALONE | Michael Jackson song that was the first ever to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 |
| EYNSHAM | Oxfordshire village that was the site of the last flash lock on the River Thames |
| FINDHORN | Village that was the principal seaport of Moray in the 17th century |
| DUARTE | California town whose Rotary Club was the first ever to admit women (in 1976) |
| BERT | Ballplayer Campaneris who was the first ever to play all nine positions in a single game |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village that was the site of a major Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| ELALAMEIN | Egyptian village that was the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Axis forces in 1942 |
| MALLTRAETH | Anglesey village that was the haunt of bird painter Charles Tunnicliffe for over 30 years (10) |
| LLOYD | see 1dn, American soccer player, the first ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final |
| CARLI | and 50dn, American soccer player, the first ever to score three goals in a FIFA Women's World Cup final |
| TAYLORSWIFT | Only person in the arts ever to be named Time's Person of the Year |
| MATHIS | Who was the first ever singer to release a Greatest Hits album, in the charts for 9 1/2 years from 1958? (6,6) |
| JOHNNY | Who was the first ever singer to release a Greatest Hits album, in the charts for 9 1/2 years from 1958? (6,6) |
| CAMPBELL | Surname of Tim who was the first ever winner of The Apprentice and who joined the show as an adviser in 2022 (8) |
| TIGERWOODS | On May 6, President Trump made him the youngest athlete ever to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| REVEALS | Shows, as ever, to be wrong about the figure (7) |
| IPOD | The longest-running Apple brand ever to be discontinued |
