| DESMOND | And 22 South African cleric and activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (7,4) |
| TUTU | South African cleric and activist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (7,4) |
| PAULO | Utd Arab Emirates, 2010-14 Portugal and 2018-22 South Korea coach (5) |
| BENTO | Utd Arab Emirates, 2010-14 Portugal and 2018-22 South Korea coach (5) |
| DIANENASH | Civil rights activist who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022: 2 wds. |
| DESMONDTUTU | South African cleric and anti-apartheid activist who won the 1984 Prize (7,4) |
| PAULIMURRAY | Civil-rights lawyer and activist who coined the term Jane Crow to refer to institutional discrimination against women |
| MOTHERTERESA | Catholic nun who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 (6,6) |
| NADINE | South African writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, _ Gordimer (6) |
| GUATEMALA | Rigoberta Menchu received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work in promoting indigenous rights in this country |
| DALAILAMA | Tibetan who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 |
| MAHATMAGANDHI | Who never received the Nobel Peace Prize although he was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948? (7,6) |
| TONIMORRISON | Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle |
| MARCONI | Italian scientist and radio pioneer who received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1909 (7) |
| FEYNMAN | Richard ___, American theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 |
| NIELSBOHR | Danish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 (5,4) |
| GIDE | Andre, French writer who received the Nobel Literature Prize in 1947 (4) |
| STEINBECK | US writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 (9) |
| EHRLICH | Paul -, German bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (7) |
| SIRALEXANDERFLEMING | British bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his work on penicillin (3,9,7) |
