| GIDE | 1947 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| HIV | Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, a French virologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, did the fundamental work in identifying ___ as the cause of AIDS |
| IVOANDRIC | Author of 1945 novel The Bridge on the Drina; 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (3,6) |
| COETZEE | J M ?, 1983 Booker Prize winner for Life & Times of Michael K; 2003 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| CURIE | Which unit used in the measurement of radioactivity was named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in both Physics and Chemistry (5) |
| ELIASCANETTI | German-language author born in Bulgaria, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 (5,7) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |
| KOREAN | In which language does Han Kang, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, write? (6) |
| STEINBECK | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962 |
| GABOR | Dennis ?, 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of holography (5) |
| PIRANDELLO | Luigi ___, Italian author; 1934 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| QUASIMODO | Salvatore ___, 1959 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (9) |
| NIELSBOHR | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 (5,4) |
| HAROLDPINTER | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (2005) |
| WALCOTT | Derek ?, 1992 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| UNDSET | Sigrid --, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928 (6) |
| LAUE | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 |
| SEIFERT | Jaroslav, 1984 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| DARIOFO | 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (5,2) |
| CAMUS | First African-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature |
