| REEFTON | West Coast town, the first in the Southern Hemisphere to be lit by electricity (7) |
| MELBOURNE | In 1956 this city was the first in the southern hemisphere to host the Olympic Games |
| BRUNNER | Initially back the athlete, it's a West Coast town (7) |
| OBERLIN | Ohio college that was the first in the U.S. to award degrees to women |
| FENCING | Event that is usually the first in the modern pentathlon (7) |
| IGNITED | Deign for it to be lit (7) |
| ATLANTA | City which hosted the 1996 Olympics, where the Olympic flame was lit by Muhammad Ali (7) |
| POWERED | A number of whales going around, were stimulated by electricity (7) |
| BRECHIN | Flavourful plant raised, when cold inside, in east coast town (7) |
| MACHINE | Piece of equipment driven by electricity or other power (7) |
| TORCHES | Carried by some and lit by others (7) |
| NAMBOUR | Sunshine coast town with the Big Pineapple (7) |
| NAROOMA | NSW South Coast town, near Bermagui (7) |
| RYECORN | * South Coast town puts on overly sentimental entertainment (7) |
| BLACKBALL | West Coast town, home to the Museum of Working Class History (9) |
| GIRVAN | Young woman shakes off tail when followed by vehicle in west coast town (6) |
| ROSYTH | Town on the Firth of Forth whose dockyards were the first in the Royal Navy to be privatised |
| STILLWATER | ... for all that, Raleigh loses fifty at the West Coast town (10) |
| MEMPHISBELLE | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress whose aircrew was the first in the US Eighth Air Force to complete 25 missions in Europe and return to the United States |
| MOOMBA | Where in South Australia did the tradition of Carols by Candlelight begin, when in the 19th century Cornish miners sang carols on Christmas Eve lit by candles on the brims of their safety helmets? (6) |
