| ISHIGURO | Name, meaning "black stone", of a Nobel laureate who wrote metaphorically about a floating world and also a day's remains (8) |
| BEAUTIFULMIND | 2001 American biographical drama film starring Russell Crowe based on the life of a Nobel Laureate in Economics Josh Nash A ___: 2 wds. |
| NIGER | Latin name meaning black, as in Lathyrus ___, or black pea (5) |
| NIGRA | Latin name meaning black, as in Sambucus - (5) |
| NERUDA | Pablo -; Chilean Nobel Laureate who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (6) |
| MANN | Nobel laureate who wrote Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus (4) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -; Nobel laureate who wrote poetry collections including Wintering Out, Field Work, The Haw Lantern and Human Chain (6) |
| VSNAIPAUL | Nobel laureate who wrote A House for Mr Biswas (1,1,7) |
| MIND | A Beautiful ___ biographical drama based on a novel by Sylvia Nasar which is about a Nobel laureate John Nash |
| GEISHA | Sayo Masudo's account of the unromantic reality of Japan's 'Floating World', Autobiography Of A ... |
| UKIYOE | Meaning "pictures of the floating world", a style of Japanese painting or woodblock print (5-1) |
| ALBERTCAMUS | Nobel laureate who wrote L’Étranger and La Peste |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
| SOLAR | 2010 Ian McEwan novel about a Nobel laureate pursuing a solution to climate change |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| ENDOCARP | The inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp of a fruit, such as the stone of a peach or cherry (8) |
| PEBBLE | A smooth round cobble-like stone of a beach, river or grotto floor; or, a thick lens of rock crystal (6) |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; Nobel laureate who wrote The Great Illusion (6) |
| HESSE | Hermann ---, Nobel laureate who wrote Steppenwolf |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
