| CHARLESLINDBERGH | US aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927 |
| SPIRIT | _ _ _ _ _ _ of St. Louis, airplane in which U.S. aviator Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 (6) |
| LINDBERGH | US aviator who crossed the Atlantic in 1927; Charles ... (9) |
| EARHART | Amelia ___, US aviator who made the first solo female flight across the Atlantic in 1932 (7) |
| POST | Wiley ?, US aviator who made the first solo flight around the world in 1933 |
| ALCOCK | Sir John William ___, English aviator who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic with A W Brown in 1919 |
| SPIRITOFSTLOUIS | Monoplane flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927 (6,2,2,5) |
| PARIS | Where Charles Lindbergh flew in the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight |
| WILEY | Post, who made the first solo flight around the world |
| 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) |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| MARCONI | Italian physicist who succeeded in transmitting signals across the Atlantic in 1901 (9.7) |
| GUGLIELMO | And 1 Italian physicist who succeeded in transmitting signals across the Atlantic in 1901 (9.7) |
| FOSSETT | Steve _, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft (7) |
| STEVEFOSSETT | The first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixedwing aircraft (5,7) |
| AMELIA | Earhart who flew solo across the Atlantic in 1932 |
| COLUMBUS | Christopher - - -, explorer who sailed across the Atlantic in 1492 (8) |
| PATSY | Cline who was the first solo female artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame |
| YANKEES | They come from across the Atlantic in tugs to go round eastern Spain (7) |
| WRIGHT | Orville ___, US aviator who, with brother Wilbur, is credited with inventing the aeroplane (6) |