| EINKORN | One of the earliest types of wheat (7) |
| ARTDECO | Glass maker Rene Lalique was one of the earliest proponents of this design style of the 20s and 30s |
| FAYETTE | Madame de La ---, 17thCentury French writer of La Princesse De Cleves, one of the earliest novels in literature (7) |
| ANAGRAM | Attlee's heir is one of the earliest (7) |
| CAVEMAN | One of the earliest artists of all time (2 words) |
| DAIMLER | Gottlieb, German engineer who built one of the earliest motor cars in 1885 (7) |
| YAHWIST | The conjectured author or authors of the earliest of four main sources of which the Pentateuch is composed |
| LIASSIC | Of the earliest epoch of the Jurassic period (7) |
| HGWELLS | English novelist who wrote some of the earliest science fiction novels, such as The War of the Worlds. (1,1,5) |
| REBEC | One of the earliest forms of the violin |
| GOLDFISH | Small member of the carp family, one of the earliest fish to be domesticated (8) |
| VIOLET | Growing in Cornish quillets or wildly among wood anemone and lily of the valley, February's birth flower and one of the earliest native plants to bloom (6) |
| ADZE | Hand tool for shaping wood. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. (4) |
| DRAW | One of the earliest forms of poker* |
| BILLIEHOLIDAY | One of the earliest jazz chanteuses (6,7) |
| ETHER | Valerius Cordus called this substance 'oil of sweet vitriol' - it was one of the earliest used anast |
| SCHONGAUER | Which German engraver was one of the earliest to use copper plates, with work including a series of |
| ABACUS | One of the earliest counting devices other than using the fingers/digits (6) |
| HAMMURABI | Babylonian king who instituted one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history (9) |
| GOTTLIEB | German inventor who, in 1885, built one of the earliest roadworthy motor cars (8,7) |
