| DALAILAMA | 1989 winner and 14th spiritual leader of Tibet, awarded for his nonviolent struggle for Tibetan autonomy (5,4) |
| MYANMAR | Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights in this country |
| PASTERNAK | In 1958 Russian writer Boris ... declined the Nobel prize for literature awarded for his novel, Dr Z |
| NOBEL | Russian writer Boris Pasternak declined this prize for literature in 1958 which had been awarded for his novel, Dr Zhivago |
| DALAI | & 19. Title of the spiritual leader of Tibet (5,4) |
| LAMA | Title of the spiritual leader of Tibet (5,4) |
| GANDHI | Political and spiritual leader of India who pioneered the resistance of tyranny through nonviolent civil disobedience (6) |
| LAMAISM | Which now discredited term for Tibetan Buddhism comes from a Chinese term for "doctrine of the lamas"? (7) |
| SEANCONNERY | This 1989 winner starred in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie and in The Hunt for Red October |
| STRANGE | Curtis -, golfer; 1988 and 1989 winner of the US Open Championship (7) |
| AMENHOTEP | Name of several Egyptian kings of the 15th and 14th centuries BC (9) |
| ALHAMBRA | A citadel and palace in Granada, Spain, built for the Moorish kings during the 13th and 14th Centuries (8) |
| PISANO | Family of noted sculptors and architects in 13th and 14th-century Italy |
| TERIYAKI | Style of Japanese cooking fit ultimately for Tibetan bovine, eaten by ER II (8) |
| AGA | "___ Khan" - Hereditary title of the religious and spiritual leader of the sect of lsmaili Muslims (3) |
| YUAN | Chinese dynasty of the 13th and 14th centuries AD established by Kublai Khan? (4) |
| DAVIDTENNANT | He played the 10th and 14th incarnations of the Doctor in Doctor Who (5,7) |
| NANA | Family member spelled using only the first and 14th letters of the alphabet |
| BARACKOBAMA | 44th president, and 14th Democratic president, of the United States (6,5) |
| LENG | Virginia. 1989 winner of the Badminton Horse Trials (4) |
