| MOTHERTERESA | 1 across winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1979 (6,6) |
| MINIBAR | Upstanding winner of Nobel Peace Prize, I'm a little cooler |
| NGOS | Occasional winners of Nobel Peace Prizes, for short |
| DESMOND | First name of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Tutu (7) |
| IRAN | Home of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi |
| BADGUY | Hit song by the 1-Across winner whose name is spelled out by the final three letters of 21-, 25-, 47- and 52-Across |
| ARGO | Best Picture 1 Across winner for 2012 |
| HAROLDPINTER | English dramatist, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005 (6,6) |
| SUMAC | Winner of Nobel Prize climbing a tree (5) |
| COETZEE | J M --, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 (7) |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi --, Italian author, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 (10) |
| ERNESTRUTHERFORD | Serious, outspoken book about retired president, winner of Nobel Prize |
| ENRICOFERMI | Italian-born physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938 |
| RABI | US physicist winner of Nobel Prize in 1944 |
| ZIEGLER | Karl, organic chemist and co-winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1963 (7) |
| CURIE | Winner of Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics |
| DEE | The fourth letter by the sound it? of Nobel visible Prize scales of |
| SLIGO | County in the Irish province of Connacht, childhood home of Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats (5) |
| IAMMALALA | *Autobiography of Nobel laureate Yousafzai |
| BELONG | Have membership of Nobel? Good! (6) |