| AMOSOZ | Israeli novelist and Professor of Literature, author of 'A Perfect Peace' (4,2) |
| SINCLAIR | -- Lewis, winner of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature; author of the novel 'Main Street' (8) |
| CHALLENGER | Competitor for professor of literature |
| POE | Edgar Allan ___, Gothic literature writer (3) |
| ELLIOT | __ Hope, Holby consultant and professor of medicine (6) |
| ASIMOV | American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. |
| RIFKIN | Joshua, American pianist and professor associated with a revival in interest in Scott Joplin's ragti |
| TINTIN | Friend of Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus (6) |
| CLUEDO | Board game featuring the characters Colonel Mustard and Professor Plum |
| KOUFAX | Pitcher of a perfect game, 9/9/65 |
| DEACON | Cleric and professor have ace to play |
| HINONE | End of a perfect Sunday drive? |
| NOHITS | Hallmark of a perfect game |
| NORUNS | One result of a perfect game |
| UNISON | Interval of a perfect prime |
| HOUSMAN | Popular poet who was a distinguished classical scholar and professor of Latin at Cambridge |
| AMOS | **** Oz, writer and professor of Hebrew literature born in 1939 (4) |
| NEWCOMB | Astronomer and professor of mathematics in the United States Navy who died in 1909 (5,7) |
| SIMON | Astronomer and professor of mathematics in the United States Navy who died in 1909 (5,7) |
| NIRVANA | In Buddhism, what is a place of perfect peace and happiness? (7) |
