| DONNASTRICKLAND | She won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the first Canadian woman to do so |
| TRANSISTOR | American John Bardeen won two Nobels in physics; the first one (1958) was for co-creating this electronic device |
| EDERLE | Gertrude ___ (b.1905 d.2003 ...American Olympian who made headlines in 1926 by swimming across the English Channel, the first woman to do so) |
| NATTRASS | First Canadian woman to compete in trapshooting in the Olympic Games in 1976 in Montreal |
| AGNES | First name of the first Canadian woman elected to the house of commons |
| ROBERTABONDAR | Mission STS-42... Astronaut who became the first Canadian woman in space in 1992: 2 wds. |
| WISNICKI | First Canadian woman to graduate from architecture at Mcgill in 1943 |
| WALK | On July 25, 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do this in space |
| JAMESPALLISON | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| OLGA | Novelist Tokarczuk who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| NOTEARS | ___ Left to Cry hit song by Ariana Grande for which she won the 2018 Best Pop Video at the MTV VMAs: 2 wds. |
| ALLISONJANNEY | She won the 2018 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in I Tonya: 2 wds. |
| OSAKA | She won the 2018 U.S. Open |
| ARTHURASHKIN | American scientist who won one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on optical tweezers: 2 wds. |
| ARNOLD | Frances ___, a winner of the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry (6) |
| GEORGEPSMITH | American biologist who shared one half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Gregory P. Winter for work on phage display: 3 wds. |
| MOMENTUM | In physics, the quantity of motion of a moving body, equal to the product of the mass and the velocity (8) |
| IMPETUS | In physics, the force that sets a body in motion or that tends to resist changes in its motion |
| RESISTANCE | In physics, the opposition to the flow of electric current, measured in ohms (10) |
| ENERGY | In physics, the capacity to do work - in drinks, 'V', 'Red Bull', 'Monster', etc! (6) |
