| POPOV | Oleg -, Russian clown who in 1955 became the first to tour outside his home country |
| OLEG | Russian clown who in 1955 became the first to tour outside his home country (4) |
| ITALO | Writer Calvino whose first name is one letter off from his home country |
| NADIA | ___ Comaneci, a Romanian gymnast became the first to score a perfect 10 in the 1976 games. She then went on to score a 10 six more times. |
| DITYATIN | Who, in the 1980 Moscow Games, became the first to win eight medals, the most in a single edition, which has since been equalled twice by Michael Phelps? (8) |
| VINCECARTER | Atlanta Hawks forward who recently became the first to play in the NBA in four different decades: 2 wds. |
| KRUNAL | Who became the first to win the Player of the Final twice in IPL history? (6) |
| STYLE | Oleg Cassini's concern |
| DRESS | Oleg Cassini creation |
| SOANE | Architect who designed the old Bank of England, his home in Lincoln's Inn Fields and Dulwich Picture Gallery, home to a collection of Old Masters (5) |
| SHECHTMAN | Recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for his discovery of quasicrystals, he also ran for president in his home country Israel (last name only) |
| LSO | Founded in 1904, in 1963 this British orchestra was the first to tour Japan (1,1,1) |
| ALANSHEPARD | US astronaut who became the first to travel in space in 1961 (4,7) |
| COMANECI | Nadia, the Romanian gymnast who, at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, became the first to score a perfect 10 (8) |
| NORWAY | In 2016, which country became the first to ban any products that contribute to deforestation? (6) |
| JAMESRODRIGUEZ | This former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich star bears the most common surname of his home country, Colombia |
| JAMESDEAN | Rebel Without A Cause actor who became the first to receive a posthumous nomination for an Oscar (5, |
| WYOMING | U.S. state that in 1890 became the first to allow women to vote (7) |
| NASH | In 1954, which US maker became the first to offer air-conditioning in their cars? (4) |
| ROSAPARKS | Civil rights activist who in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger |
