| KAWABATA | Japanese winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature (8) |
| SATO | Japanese winner of the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize |
| CASSIN | Rene ****** , French jurist who won the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize (6) |
| ROSEWALL | Ken ........ , winner of the 1968 French Open, 1970 US Open and 1971 and 1972 Australian Open singles tennis championships (8) |
| LOCKHEED | Makers of the 1968 to 1984 TriStar airliner (8) |
| ROUTLEDGE | Patricia, winner of the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Darling Of The Day (9) |
| GRENOBLE | Site of the 1968 Winter Olympics |
| BOROS | Julius ___, winner of the 1968 PGA Championship (5) |
| ASHE | Winner of the 1968 US Open tennis championship, Arthur ... |
| ALLIGATOR | Red ___ , winner of the 1968 Grand National |
| RENE | 1968 Nobel Peace Prize winner Cassin |
| FRANCE | Country in which 1968 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rene Cassin was born (6) |
| WOLFE | Author of the 1968 work named in the circled letters (reading clockwise) |
| SERGIOLEONE | Director of the 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West (6,5) |
| HERBIE | Volkswagen Beetle star of the 1968 film The Love Bug (6) |
| STEVIEWONDER | Singer of the 1968 hit For Once in My Life (6,6) |
| LARS | 1968 Nobel chemist Onsager |
| PRAGUE | Central European city where the reforms of the 1968 spring led to repression and reprisal by Warsaw |
| ZEFFIRELLI | Franco _, Italian director of the 1968 film Romeo & Juliet and 1977 TV series Jesus Of Nazareth (10) |
| CRISP | Quentin ___, (born Denis Charles Pratt), author of the 1968 autobiography The Naked Civil Servant (5) |
