| ANDYNICOL | Scottish international scrum- half who, as captain of Bath, was the first British player to lift the Heineken Cup (4,5) |
| NIGELSHORT | The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final |
| FREEDROP | Rule allowing a golf player to lift the ball from its resting place, and let it fall elsewhere without penalty |
| SNAREDRUM | Dispatch a couple of card players to lift percussion instrument |
| INALATHER | The cross woman taking her bubble bath was ... |
| SPARTAN | Frugal bath was running — little time to fill that |
| BRUTALLY | In cold blood, bath was overturned around redheaded friend (8) |
| KEEGAN | Who is the only British player to have been voted European Footballer of the Year twice? (6) |
| CUMMINS | Who was picked as captain of the ICC Test Team of the Year 2024? (7) |
| COX | Brian, Scottish actor/director who was the first British actor to teach at the Moscow Art Theatre school (3) |
| BOGARDE | Dirk ___, English actor who was the first British president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival |
| ODORUSSELL | 19th-century diplomat who was the first British ambassador to the German Empire (3,7) |
| REDGRAVE | Former Team GB rower who was the first British athlete to have won five Olympic gold medals (8) |
| NEAVE | Airey, Conservative politician who was the first British POW to escape from Colditz Castle (5) |
| HELENSHARMAN | Chemist and astronaut who was the first British person to go into space, in 1991 (5,7) |
| AMYJOHNSON | Who was the first British woman to be granted a ground aeroplane engineer's licence? (3,7) |
| ASHA | Sprinter who was the first British woman to achieve a global 100 metres title, _ Philip (4) |
| MCRAE | Colin ___ was the first British driver to win the World Rally Championship. (5) |
| GEORGE | And 36 English actor. author. playwright and filmmaker who was the first British actor to win an Oscar (6.6) |
| ARLISS | English actor. author. playwright and filmmaker who was the first British actor to win an Oscar (6.6) |
