| MARSALIS | Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning trumpeter Wynton |
| ROY | Grammy-winning trumpeter Hargrove |
| HIRT | Grammy-winning trumpeter Al |
| RENT | Tony- and Pulitzer-winning musical |
| TONI | Nobel and Pulitzer winning writer ___ Morrison (4) |
| ABEBURROWS | Tony-and-Pulitzer-winning humorist digging a tunnel? |
| HEANDSHE | Album by jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (2,3,3) |
| MORRISON | Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Sula (8) |
| RODGERS | Richard who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer |
| TONIMORRISON | Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (4,8) |
| GIELGUD | Oscar-, Emmy-, Grammy- and Tony Award-winning actor remembered for his resonant voice and interpretations of Shakespearean characters (7) |
| CELINEDION | Grammy and Juno award winning French-Canadian singer |
| ELLEN | *Talker and Oscar, Grammy and Emmy host |
| SILLS | Grammy and Emmy-winning soprano |
| LET | "___ It Go" (Grammy- and Oscar-winning song of 2013) |
| ADELE | Emmy-, Grammy-, and Oscar-winning female singer from England |
| MEREENFIELD | Former editorial page editor of The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for Newswee |
| YONKERS | Neil Simon's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning coming of age drama, Lost In ... |
| TARTT | Author of The Little Friend, The Secret History and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch (5) |
| JOSEPHS | Heller and Pulitzer |
