| BELLOW | Nobel Prize winner in 1976 and author of Herzog (6) |
| ASA | 1972-82 Scotland and 1967-74 West Brom midfielder; Manchester City and Norwich League Cup final winner in 1976 and 1985 respectively (3,8) |
| HARTFORD | 1972-82 Scotland and 1967-74 West Brom midfielder; Manchester City and Norwich League Cup final winner in 1976 and 1985 respectively (3,8) |
| NELLIEKIM | Soviet gymnast, Olympic gold medal winner in 1976 and 1980 (6,3) |
| NURSE | Night ....., Champion Hurdle winner in 1976 and 1977 (5) |
| CASSON | Director of architecture at the Festival of Britain who was elected president of the Royal Academy in 1976 and illustrated the Prince of Wales' The Old Man of Lochnagar (6) |
| BARNES | Julian, English author and Booker Prize winner in 2011 for The Sense Of An Ending (6) |
| SHEENE | Barry ?, winner of the 500cc motorcycle world championship in 1976 and 1977 (6) |
| RANKIN | LPGA Player of the Year in 1976 and 1977 who became a broadcaster (6) |
| TERESA | Mother ___ (Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979) |
| GERMAN | Nationality of Willy Brandt and Werner Herzog |
| GUSTAVHERTZ | German experimental physicist and 1925 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (6,5) |
| ENIGMA | The ____ of Kaspar Hauser is a Werner Herzog film about a 17-year old foundling in 19th-centrury Nuremberg |
| LOEWI | Nobel Prize winner in medicine in 1936 |
| CURIE | Marie ___, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and physics |
| ANDREGIDE | French author, 1947 Nobel Prize winner in Literature |
| EMILES | Herzog and Zola |
| WERNER | Klemperer or Herzog of filmdom |
| UCLA | Where Ardem Patapoutian, 2021 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, got his undergrad degree in biology |
| EDELMAN | Gerald ___, 1972 Nobel Prize winner in medicine |