| ELIE | He won the Nobel |
| YEATS | He won the Nobel prize for literature? Indeed, way back |
| LOWRY | He won the Irish Open as an amateur ten years before he won The Open (5) |
| TOMMORRISSENIOR | He won the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, and 8th British Opens; his son won the next four after that |
| UPTON | He won the Pulitzer for Novel the same year that Thornton won for Drama |
| LEMMON | Though missing out on the Oscar he won the Cannes best actor prize for his work against type in The |
| INGE | He won the Pulitzer for Drama the same year that Hemingway won for Fiction |
| ALECGUINNESS | He won the Best Actor Oscar for The Bridge On The River Kwai (4,8) |
| BOBBY | ___ Darin Mack the Knife musician who was 22 when he won the 1959 Grammy for Record of the Year |
| KEVINCOSTNER | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1990's "Dances With Wolves" |
| ROBERTREDFORD | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1980's "Ordinary People" |
| JAMESLBROOKS | He won the Best Director Oscar for the first film he directed, 1983's "Terms of Endearment" |
| EIGEN | He won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| FOYT | He won the Indy 500 three times in the '60s |
| NICKPRICE | He won the PGA Championship and the British Open in 1994 |
| JOE | ___ Swash, former King of the Jungle, who's been a regular host on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here NOW!, since he won the show (pictured) (3) |
| STOPPARD | He won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play for his The Coast Of Utopia, Tom ... |
| TITLE | The position of being a winner in a competition. "He won the world heavyweight in 2014." |
| IRONIC | Alanis Morissette single which begins "An old man turned ninety-eight / He won the lottery and died the next day" |
| OFTHEDAY | The Remains ___ 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (birthday today) for which he won the Booker Prize and which was also adapted into a film: 3 wds. |