| SHANA | ___ Dale, first woman to serve as deputy administrator of NASA |
| WEBB | Telescope named for the second administrator of NASA |
| EMMERDALE | TV show set in the Yorkshire dales, first broadcast in 1972 (9) |
| NANCYPELOSI | The first woman to serve as Speaker of the US House of Representatives (5,6) |
| PERON | Isabel, president of Argentina 1974-1976; the first woman to serve as president of a country (5) |
| ASTOR | First woman to serve as a British member of Parliament |
| THATCHER | The first woman to serve as prime minister of England |
| NANCY | First woman to serve as a British Member of Parliament (5,5) |
| PATIL | The first woman to serve as president of India (2007-12) |
| NANCYASTOR | The first woman to serve as an MP in the House of Commons (5,5) |
| HARRIS | "No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back." In 2021 she became the first woman to serve as U.S. vice president. Who said |
| BECKETT | Margaret, Labour politician and the first woman to serve as her party's deputy leader (7) |
| RENO | First woman to serve as attorney genenfl |
| INDIA | On July 25, 2007, Pratibha Patil became the first woman to serve as this country's president |
| MAY | The second woman to serve as prime minister of the U.K., she resigned in 2019 after failing to secure a Brexit deal |
| LORETTA | ___ Lynch, first African American woman to serve as U.S. attorney general |
| OCONNOR | First woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court |
| MERKEL | Sole woman to serve as Germany's Chancellor |
| RUTH | First name of the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court |
| SECRETARY | An administrator of an office or the day-to-day business of a board or company; or, an escritoire (9) |
