| AWARDING | Granting in recognition of achievement (8) |
| REWARD | Gift in recognition of achievement (6) |
| AWARD | Prize in recognition of achievement (5) |
| OBSOLETE | Old individual not ultimately included in recognition of achievements (8) |
| CITATION | Official recognition of achievement (8) |
| REWARDED | Given something in recognition of one's efforts (8) |
| ACCOLADE | Praise in recognition of merit (8) |
| LAUREATE | Person honoured in recognition of literary merit (8) |
| GOLDDISC | Named after a precious metal, a framed replica record that is issued to a recording artist in recognition of 100,000 sales of an album (4,4) |
| REWARDER | Guard about first is person giving something in recognition of effort (8) |
| ADEUNDEM | Latin term for a degree awarded by one university in recognition of qualifications from another (2,6) |
| CREDITS | Titles rolled at the end of a film in recognition of cast/crew; or, a list of acknowledgements in a book (7) |
| BACALL | US actress awarded an Honorary Oscar in 2009 'in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures' (6) |
| LAUREL | Recognition of achievement |
| CREDIT | Recognition of achievement (6) |
| MEDAL | Recognition of achievement |
| EHRLICH | German physician, co-recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1908 in recognition of his work on immunity (7) |
| OSCAR | Award made in recognition of outstanding endeavour in any of various other fields. (5) |
| MAY | Known to the Saxons as "Tri-Milchi", in recognition of cows being milked thrice daily due to an abundance of lush verdant pasture, the name of the spring month containing Beltane (3) |
| EMMY | Prize first awarded in 1949 in recognition of excellence in the US television industry (4) |
