| TRYGVELIE | Norwegian Labour politician who served as the first Secretary General of the United Nations from 1946 to 1953 (6,3) |
| JAVIER | Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991 (6) |
| PEREZDECUELLAR | Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991 (5,2,7) |
| UTHANT | Burmese diplomat who served as the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971 (1,5) |
| AURIOL | Vincent ___, French politician who served as the first president of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954 |
| PATRICELUMUMBA | Pan-Africanist who served as the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| PLAATJE | Sol _ , the first secretary general of the ANC (5) |
| UNITEDNATIONS | Trygve Lie was the first Secretary- General of which organisation? (6,7) |
| REYNOLDS | Sir Joshua -; painter who served as the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts (8) |
| BETTYBOOTHROYD | Former Labour MP who served as the first female Speaker in the House of Commons (5,9) |
| ALEXANDER | American Founding Father who served as the first US secretary of the treasury, _ Hamilton (9) |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
| BRUNDTLAND | Known as "mother of the nation", a Labour politician who served as Norway's first woman prime minister (10) |
| ASTOR | Nancy who served as the first female member of the British Parliament |
| BANKIMOON | South Korean diplomat who served as secretary-general of the United Nations from 2007 to 2016 (3,2-4) |
| LIE | Trygve, first secretary-general of the United Nations (3) |
| STAFFORD | ____ Cripps, Labour politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1947 to 1950 (8) |
| JOEBIDEN | Politician who served as the 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 (3,5) |
| MELBOURNE | Viscount, titled politician who served as the first British prime minister in Queen Victoria's reign (9) |
| EBERT | Friedrich ___, Social Democratic statesman who served as the first president of Germany (1919-25) (5) |
