| METIER | The first person to start row in business |
| MEDIC | The first person to start dictating to an informal practitioner |
| POTTIER | Dafter chief about to start row (7) |
| RANGES | Offends having right to start rows (6) |
| RUCTION | End of year sale doesn't start row (7) |
| SERVER | Someone waiting for person to start court action (6) |
| COMEABOUT | Firm wants this person to start a fight, happen (4,5) |
| LIMBO | Foolish person to start mobbing wildly! |
| TROLLS | They start rows on the internet (6) |
| RATTIER | Bad person starts row, becoming more bad-tempered (7) |
| YEAGER | Pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier when he exceeded 670 mph (Mach 1) in the Bell X-1 rocket research aircraft in 1947 (6) |
| BLYTH | Paratrooper turned yachtsman who, in 1971 in the ketch British Steel, became the first person to sail solo nonstop westwards around the world (5) |
| KEIRHARDIE | Scottish politician who became the first person to lead the Labour Party in the House of Commons in 1906 (4,6) |
| CHARLES | In about 1840, which naturalist was the first person to add wheeled legs to a chair, the precursor of the modern office chair? (7,6) |
| DARWIN | In about 1840, which naturalist was the first person to add wheeled legs to a chair, the precursor of the modern office chair? (7,6) |
| ARMSTRONG | Astronaut who commanded the space mission that enabled him to become the first person to walk on the moon (9) |
| BALLOON | In 1995 Steve Fossett became the first person to cross the Pacific solo in this type of gas-filled air craft |
| WEBB | Howard ____ was the first person to referee the Champions League and World Cup finals in the same year |
| MOUNTAINEER | Climber such as Maurice Herzog who, in 1950, became the first person to reach the summit of a peak over 8000m high - it was Mt Annapurna in Nepal |
| FOSSETT | Steve _, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft (7) |
