| MUTINYACT | The first such law, introduced in William and Mary's reign in 1689, restrained the monarch's control over military forces (6,3) |
| ORANGEADE | Drink served by assistant reportedly in William and Mary's house? |
| REIGN | Monarch's control, say, good if kept in check |
| HERALD | Other aldermen restrained the messenger (6) |
| RIOTACT | UK law introduced in 1715 to quell civil disturbance and disperse unlawful assemblies of people (4,3 |
| TELLSON | Dobs in William and his boy (5,2) |
| TAKING | Gaining monarch control, (6) |
| LYNCH | Such law implies a suspended sentence (5) |
| BLOODBANK | The first such storage for supplies of the recently discovered types A, B, AB and O was established in a hospital in Leningrad in 1937 - the Red Cross would run it today (5,4) |
| NONJUROR | Any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689 |
| NINTHSYMPHONY | Beethoven's was the first such to have vocal parts in it (5,8) |
| ORANGE | William of ___ , byname of King William III, who acceded to the throne in 1689 jointly with Queen Mary II (6) |
| GOSPEL | Matthew wrote the first such book by the four evangelists (6) |
| ASTEROID | Ceres was the first such heavenly body discovered in 1801 (8) |
| TEN | Score earned by Nadia Comaneci on July 18, 1976, the first such score ever achieved by a gymnast in an Olympic event |
| IMPACT | Tushar Deshpande was the first such player in IPL. (6) |
| NORMAN | Pevensey Castle was the first such one built in England (6) |
| PURCELL | Composer who, as organist of Westminster Abbey, played at William and Mary's coronation (7) |
| WILLIAMANDMARY | Which monarchs took over the British throne in 1689? (7,3,4) |
| BEHN | England's first known professional female writer, interred in Westminster Abbey in 1689 (4) |
