| STEVENAGE | The UK's first town with a fully pedestrianised town centre (9) |
| CAREFREE | Like pedestrianised town centre that keeps people ultimately happy |
| SPACEPORT | Sutherland is to have the UK's first one (9) |
| ADDINGTON | Prime minister from 1801-04 later titled 1st Viscount Sidmouth who delivered the UK's first budget speech (9) |
| ERNIEWISE | Comedian once thought to have made the UK's first mobile phone call |
| ROTTENROW | Avenue of Hyde Park, the UK's first artificially lit highway |
| THEDAMNED | Band who released the UK's first punk single, in 1976 |
| LEICESTER | ___ Square, pedestrianised area in London's West End noted for film premieres (9) |
| JOHNELLIOTBURNS | ____, the UK's first working-class cabinet minister (in 1905) later coined the phrase "The Thames is liquid history" |
| SMILE | The UK's first fully digital bank, created in 1999 (5) |
| PRECINCT | Word that first described an administrative district, later an enclosed area around a cathedral, church or college; or, an open-air, pedestrianised galleria in a town (8) |
| EPSOM | Surrey town in which the UK's first automatic telephone exchange was installed in 1912 (5) |
| GOWER | Peninsula in Wales including the Mumbles and Rhossili Bay that was designated as the UK's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956 (5) |
| DJFRESH | English music producer, born Daniel Stein, responsible for the UK's first dubstep number one, Louder, featuring Sian Evans, and first drum and bass number one, Hot Right Now, featuring Rita Ora |
| SINCLAIR | English electrical engineer, inventor of the UK's first mass-market home computer and a battery electric vehicle (8) |
| STOPES | Author of Married Love who set up the UK's first family planning clinic (6) |
| ATTLEE | The UK's first Deputy Prime Minister, 1942-45 |
| TAFFY | ____ Thomas MBE, the UK's first Laureate for Storytelling |
| OILWELL | Hardstoft No 1, near Tibshelf in Derbyshire was the UK's first inland ____ |
| PIPEX | The UK's first internet service provider (launched in 1990) (5) |
