| ATWELL | Winifred _, the first black person to have a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart (6) |
| WINIFREDATWELL | The first black person to have a No 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart |
| KIMPETRAS | First openly transgender woman to have a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart |
| GIBSON | Althea _, tennis player who was the first black person to win a Grand Slam title (6) |
| BUNCHE | Ralph _, UN diplomat and first black person to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 (6) |
| SIDNEY | Actor and director Poitier, the first black person to win an Oscar for best actor |
| SAVAGE | ____ Garden, pop duo whose song Truly Madly Deeply was a hit in the UK in 1998 (6) |
| SYLVIA | Swedish singer who had a 1974 top five hit in the UK with Y Viva Espana (6) |
| WATSON | Winifred ___, author of novels Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Odd Shoes (6) |
| POITIER | Sidney _, the first black person to win the Academy Award for Best Actor (7) |
| CANNON | Can have a no from the French big guns (6) |
| SIDNEYPOITIER | The first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, in 1964 (6,7) |
| PEOPLE | Highest-charting African hit in the UK, by Libianca (6) |
| YOUBET | Second person to have a flutter? Certainly! (3.3) |
| HOLTBY | Winifred ___, English writer best known for her novel South Riding (6) |
| ASHE | As he became the first black person to win the US, Wimbledon and Australian tennis championships |
| RIDING | South ___, Winifred Holtby novel (6) |
| RUNAWAY | Del Shannon's first single, a 1961 No 1 hit in the USA and UK |
| FLIPWILSON | First Black person to host a successful TV variety show |
| HERBALPERT | Only person to have a #1 song with a vocal performance as well as a #1 song with an instrumental |
