| ALANMENKEN | EGOT winner who wrote the music for "Aladdin" |
| VIOLADAVIS | EGOT-winner who turns 59 today |
| ALEXMORGAN | 2019 Best Female Athlete ESPY winner who wrote the kids book series The Kicks: 2 wds. |
| SERENAWILLIAMS | 2003 and 2013 Best Female Athlete ESPY winner who wrote the kids book The Adventures of Qai Qai: 2 wds. |
| NAOMIOSAKA | 2021 Best Female Athlete ESPY winner who wrote the kids book The Way Champs Play: 2 wds. |
| THOMASPYNCHON | National Book Award winner who wrote the 1963 novel "V.": 2 wds. |
| KURTWEILL | German composer who wrote the music for Bertolt Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Threepenny Opera |
| ALAN | Menken who wrote the music for "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast" and "Aladdin" |
| ARNOLD | Malcolm - - -,composer who wrote the music for The Bridge On The River Kwai (6) |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino, Italian composer who wrote the music for the ballet The Magic Toyshop (8) |
| HAMLISCH | Marvin ___, composer who wrote the music for Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (8) |
| SARA | Singer Bareilles who wrote the music for the Broadway show "Waitress" |
| ROTA | Nino who wrote the music for The Godfather |
| JAIME | Catalan composer ___ Nuno, who wrote the music for the Mexican national anthem |
| WEILL | Kurt who wrote the music for "The Threepenny Opera" |
| ZIMMER | Hans ---, film score composer who wrote the music for The Lion King and Gladiator (6) |
| COPLAND | US composer who wrote the music for the 1939 film Of Mice and Men (7) |
| IGOR | ___ Stravinsky, Russian-born composer who wrote the music for the ballet Petrushka (4) |
| LLOYDWEBBER | Andrew, theatrical impresario who wrote the music for the 2015 stage musical School of Rock (5,6) |
| BERNSTEIN | Leonard, U.S. conductor and composer who wrote the music for the musical West Side Story (9) |
