| GALSWORTHY | John -; novelist whose trilogy The Forsyte Saga earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| MORTIMER | John --, novelist whose works include 'Paradise Postponed' (8) |
| PULLMAN | Philip -; author whose trilogy of novels His Dark Materials concludes with The Amber Spyglass (7) |
| HGWELLS | Sinclair Lewis nominated him for the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| VOICEOFGOD | Canadian actor Lorne Greene's narration skills earned him this nickname: 3 wds. |
| BLUEVELVET | This 1986 David Lynch thriller earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Director |
| ASTON | Scientist whose development of the mass spectrograph earned him the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (5) |
| XRAY | Discovery of Wilhelm Roentgen, which earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 |
| UREY | Harold Clayton ___, US discoverer of deuterium (1932); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1934) (4) |
| DWAYNEJOHNSON | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle actor whose $124 million earned him the #2 spot in Forbes's ranking: 2 wds. |
| TITIAN | Venetian Renaissance artist whose innovative approach to oil painting and masterful use of colour, including the red with which he is synonymous, earned him the monikers "The Sun Amidst Small Stars" a |
| RICHARDI | King or "rex bellicosus" whose courage in battle earned him the epithet Coeur de Lion/Lionheart (7,1) |
| NERNST | Scientist whose formulation of the heat theorem known as the third law of thermodynamics earned him a Nobel Prize (6) |
| IVANI | Fourteenth-century grand prince of Moscow whose financial acumen earned him the nickname "Moneybag" (4,1) |
| INGE | Priest and former assistant master at Eton whose pessimism earned him the nickname "gloomy dean" (4) |
| PUJARA | His 521 runs earned him the Player of the Series award during India's first Test series win Down Under (6) |
| USTINOV | Sir Peter -; actor whose role in the 1960 film Spartacus earned him an Academy Award (7) |
| TWOTOWERS | "The ... ... ", second part of the JRR Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Rings (3,6) |
| ARMIES | Final instalment in The Hobbit film trilogy, The Battle of the Five ... (6) |
| RETURN | Final part of Peter Jackson's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The ------ of the King (6) |
