| ANATOLEFRANCE | French poet and novelist of Les dieux ont soif and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature a decade after mAETERLINCK (7,6) |
| PLATH | Poet and novelist of whom Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, "Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible" |
| EAU | Quaff when one has soif |
| ALEXANDER | Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, _ Pushkin (9) |
| HUGO | French poet and novelist Victor ___ |
| BECKETT | What was the surname of Samuel, the Irish playwright and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature? (7) |
| HIV | Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, a French virologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, did the fundamental work in identifying ___ as the cause of AIDS |
| RUTHERFORD | Father of nuclear physics and winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for his work in the chemistry of radioactive substances (last name only) |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| RESSA | Cofounder of Rappler and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression (surname only) |
| MAATHAI | Wangari ___, founder of the Green Belt Movement and winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize (7) |
| MOTHERTERESA | Roman Catholic nun noted for her missionary work in Kolkata and winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| BLACKBURN | Tony ---------, DJ and winner of the 2002 series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! (9) |
| KELLY | Princess of Monaco and winner of the Best Actress Oscar for her work in The Country Girl (last name only) (5) |
| THEME | A topic; a recurrent idea in art/ literature; a motif/subject in music; or, a setting given to a pub/restaurant (5) |
| PRODHOMME | French poet and essayist awarded the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 (9) |
| SULLY | French poet and essayist awarded the first Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 (5) |
| MANUELSANTOS | Juan ___, President of Colombia and winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| BRINGUPTHEBODIES | Hilary Mantel novel, a follow-up to Wolf Hall, and winner of the 2012 Man Booker prize |
| ANDREBRETON | French poet and art critic who was the founder and chief theorist of surrealism (5,6) |
