| EMIN | Artist whose installation My Bed was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize (4) |
| TRACEYEMIN | Artist whose work My Bed was shortlisted for the 1999 Turner Prize |
| CHICAGO | Artist whose installation artwork The Dinner Party depicts the place settings of 39 women from myth |
| SWIM | Barry Can't _, Scottish musician whose 2023 debut album was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize (4) |
| CLIO | Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce won one on "Mad Men"... and was shortlisted for one in real life for a new product ad originally created on the show |
| SELF | Will _, author and journalist shortlisted for the 2012 Booker Prize for Umbrella (4) |
| TURK | Gavin ___, British sculptor and conceptual artist whose installations include 2004's The Golden Thread (4) |
| BARRYADAMSON | Former member of Magazine and the Bad Seeds whose third solo album, Soul Murder, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize in 1992 (5,7) |
| AUSTER | Paul ***** , author whose 2017 novel '4321' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize (6) |
| ROSETREMAIN | Author whose 1989 novel Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize |
| KIDD | Jess -, author of The Hoarder, shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award 2019 at Listowel Writers' Week (4) |
| ETERNITY | The End of ___ 1955 sci fi novel by Isaac Asimov that was shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel |
| NICEWORK | 1988 novel by David Lodge that was shortlisted for the Booker prize |
| MAMA | The one of the Three Bears whose bed was too soft |
| PAPA | Bear whose porridge was too hot and whose bed was too hard |
| LILO | Which air bed was trademarked in 1936? (2-2) |
| STERLING | Raheem, Manchester City FC player who was shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2021 (8) |
| UNLESS | The final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, shortlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize |
| WINNIEDUNN | A Tongan-Australian writer, whose debut novel, Dirt Poor Islanders (2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award? (6,4) |
| PRAXIS | Fay Weldon novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize (6) |
