| MALALA | "I Am ___" (2013 autobiography whose author won a Nobel Prize the following year) |
| THEGOOD | 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year (3,4,5) |
| EARTH | 1931 novel by Pearl Buck that won the Pulitzer Prize the following year (3,4,5) |
| GUEST | Which Australian writer won the 2010 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book with her novel |
| BACHARACH | Composer whose 2013 autobiography is entitled Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music (9) |
| MYLIFE | Lyn Hejinian's poetic autobiography whose most recent version, updated when the author was forty-five, consists of forty-five sections with forty-five sentences each |
| IASIMOV | 1994 literary autobiography whose first chapter is titled "Infant Prodigy?" |
| ITINA | Autobiography whose first chapter is "Nut Bush" |
| IAM | ___ Malala (2013 autobiography): 2 wds. |
| SEA | Ernest Hemingway won a Nobel Prize in 1954 for his novel The Old Man And The ... |
| JACKLIN | Tony ___, British golfer who won the Open Championship in 1969 and the US Open the following year |
| MICHELLE | 1965 song by The Beatles that was a No. 1 hit the following year for The Overlanders (8) |
| MUNRO | Short story writer Alice who won a Nobel Prize in 2013 |
| ADOLF | German chemist Windaus who won a Nobel prize in 1928 |
| SMALLEY | Richard who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering buckyballs |
| TEEN | Malala Yousafzai was one when she won a Nobel Prize |
| MARIECURIE | Only person who has won a Nobel Prize in two different sciences |
| CAPRICORN | Zodiacal constellation covering the period of December 22 to January 20 the following year, ruled by the planet Saturn (9) |
| HERSCHEL | Composer whose construction of a telescope led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781 and subsequent appointment as court astronomer to George III the following year (8) |
| TEDHEATH | Keen yachtsman who won the Sydney-Hobart yacht race in 1969, and became Britain's PM the following year (3,5) |
