| ROUGHRIDERS | Title given to the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry commanded by Teddy Roosevelt in the 1898 Spanish-American War (5,6) |
| THEGARDENOFEDEN | We were thrown out of our home there in the 1st place, it was given to the 1st couple who came along |
| RIDERS | Nickname for the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry in the Spanish-American War of 1898 (6) |
| ROUGH | Nickname for the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry in the Spanish-American War of 1898 (5) |
| HERBERTHOOVER | Incumbent defeated by Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1932 US presidential election |
| NOBEL | Peace prize won by Teddy Roosevelt |
| SANJUANHILL | In 2020, a 122-yearold Congressional Medal of Honor was controversially sold at auction in Germany for $15,000; its winner had received it fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt in this battle |
| ALA | 1st US state, alphabetically (abbr.) |
| MONTH | The 1st to the 1st, e.g. |
| ROUGHRIDER | First United States Volunteer Cavalry member |
| HITTITE | Member of a group of people who inhabited Anatolia and N. Syria from the 3rd millennium to the 1st millennium B.C. (7) |
| MARY | Nickname given to the first public electric steam turbine in the US (4-3) |
| NEWDEAL | Domestic programme of economic and social reform implemented by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to combat the effects of the Great Depression (3,4) |
| LEND | An act, signed by Roosevelt in 1941, authorised war supplies to the Allies on the basis of ... or le |
| PANDORASBOX | In Greek mythology, a large jar containing all the evils of the world that was given to the first woman on Earth |
| PEON | One held in servitude in Spanish America becomes a foot soldier in India |
| TYLER | In 1841, John ____ became the first US vice president to succeed to the presidency without election |
| TINOPENER | Kitchen tool ready to be given to the first person in? |
| ABIGAIL | What name was given to the first storm under the alphabetical naming system introduced last November? (7) |
| THEFOURSEASONS | Name given to the first part of Antonio Vivaldi's concerti The Contest between Harmony and Invention |
