| JOYNERKERSEE | She was the first to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon |
| ANDYIRVINE | Scottish rugby union player, first to score more than 300 points in international rugby (4,6) |
| DUSTY | - - - Hare, Leicester Tigers legend who scored more than 7,000 points (5) |
| DIANA | Taurasi who was the first WNBA player to score more than 9,000 points |
| MAURICERICHARD | Canadian ice hockey player who was the first to score 50 goals in one season and the first to score 500 goals in a career |
| 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. |
| TINAFEY | "You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute." She was the first woman to be head writer on Saturday Night Live. |
| COMANECI | Nadia, the Romanian gymnast who, at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics, became the first to score a perfect 10 (8) |
| EIFFELTOWER | Arranged lower fee if taking time to deliver more than 7,000 tonnes of iron |
| LEWIS | Denise _, British winner of the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games (5) |
| LORENAOCHOA | She was the first Mexican golfer to rank #1 in the world and received golf's Bob Jones Award in 2011: 2 wds. |
| EVE | She was the first women to take part in the venture (3) |
| TENDULKAR | Only cricketer to score more Test runs than Tasmania's Ricky Ponting (9) |
| ZAHEERABBAS | Bespectacled Pakistani batsman, the first to score three consecutive ODI centuries |
| TAT | Sylvester, to Tweety Online subscriptions: Today's puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay. |
| GRACE | . ..... Clements, bronze medallist in the heptathlon at the 2010 Commonwealth Games (5) |
| ENNISHILL | Jessica --- ---, retired athlete who won gold in the heptathlon at the 2012 Olympic Games (5-4) |
| DENISELEWIS | British gold medallist in the heptathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games (6,5) |
| COLEMAN | She was the first Black woman to stage a public flight in America |
| YAY | "Huzzah!" Online subscriptions: Today's puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year). Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay. |
