| PULITZERPRIZE | Chicken Shock picked up a prestigious award in America (8,5) |
| HONOURED | Given a prestigious award |
| TONY | Where UN delegates go for award in America |
| EMMY | Novel with new ending gets award in America |
| FANDOM | Fellow with prestigious award in circle of followers (6) |
| ROBE | Leader of research given prestigious award in gown (4) |
| OSCARPETERSON | Perhaps Ackroyd's performing after prestigious award for piano virtuoso (5,8) |
| IDIOM | Prestigious award? I had one first, in a manner of speaking (5) |
| ADAMS | Member of a prestigious American family, a historian who wrote an autobiography, The Education of ___, published in 1918 (5,5) |
| HENRY | Member of a prestigious American family, a historian who wrote an autobiography, The Education of ___, published in 1918 (5,5) |
| IVYLEAGUEMULLET | Ray-finned fish in a prestigious school? |
| CLASSIC | At the beginning, call girl in charge of a prestigious race (7) |
| DOCTORAL | Tamper with a licentiate, relating to a prestigious degree (8) |
| ADMIT | Receive poor grade in a prestigious university |
| COMPARISON | Conservative accepting prestigious award somewhere in France ___ one of those odious things? (10) |
| HONOUR | In time number will get prestigious award |
| PALMEDOR | Prestigious award won by the film Anora in 2024 |
| CANNES | Which location made headlines when Urvashi Rautela gracefully posed at a prestigious hotel's revolving door, creating a viral fashion moment? (6) |
| CHURCHILLDS | Site of a prestigious first leg |
| PULITZER | US newspaper publisher who established a prestigious prize (8) |
