| DEKLERK | F.W. --- ---, the 9th State President of South Africa, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 (2,5) |
| TIMEOFOURLIVES | 2014 top 10 Pitbull song released with Ne-Yo: 4 wds. |
| ANENT | In a line with; NE ant (anag.) (5) |
| SIOUXCITY | It's near Iowa's borders with Nebraska and South Dakota |
| LASAGNE | Convict caught while being served with northeast Italian food (7) |
| ERN | Suffix with northeast |
| RAMAPHOSA | President of South Africa who succeeded Jacob Zuma in February 2018 (5,9) |
| CYRIL | President of South Africa who succeeded Jacob Zuma in February 2018 (5,9) |
| SADAT | President of Egypt who shared the Nobel peace prize with Menachem Begin in 1978 (5,5) |
| ANWAR | President of Egypt who shared the Nobel peace prize with Menachem Begin in 1978 (5,5) |
| KISSINGER | US academic and diplomat during the Nixon era who shared the Nobel peace prize in 1973 |
| YASSERARAFAT | PLO leader who shared the Nobel peace prize with Shimon Perez and Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 |
| BOTHA | Surname of the State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989 (5) |
| TRIMBLE | Who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume? (7) |
| ENDERS | Known as the father of modern vaccines, one of three scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 (6) |
| ESAKI | Leo ___, Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson |
| RYLE | Sir Martin ___, English radio astronomer who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 with Antony Hewish |
| CURIE | Surname of husband and wife physicists who shared the Nobel Prize in 1903(5) |
| SCHWEITZER | Albert, French-German theologian and mission doctor in equatorial Africa who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize (10) |
| MACLEOD | Who, with Banting, shared the Nobel prize in 1923 for discovering insulin? (7) |