| NADINEGORDIMER | Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist (6,8) |
| CHARLIZETHERON | Academy Award winning South African actress whose films include Long Shot, Monster, Atomic Blonde, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Italian Job (8,6) |
| DEKLERK | Nobel-winning South African president |
| PIENAAR | Francois _, captain of the 1995 World Cup-winning South African rugby union team (7) |
| GORDIMER | Nadine ___ (1923 2014), South African novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 (8) |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African novelist who won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African novelist and playwright awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise (5,6) |
| PATON | South African novelist Alan |
| ANDRE | South African novelist Brink |
| LEO | Premiership-winning South Sydney backrower now playing rugby for Sunwolves (3) |
| PARASITE | Oscar-winning South Korean film (8) |
| SAIT | 1970-71 Grand Final-winning Souths centre, Paul ... (4) |
| FAULKNER | William -, US Nobel prize-winning novelist |
| ISAACBASHEVISSINGER | Polish-born, American Jewish, Nobel Prize-winning novelist (5,8,6) |
| TONI | Nobel Prize-winning novelist Morrison |
| BUCK | Pearl ___, 1938 Nobel Prize-winning novelist who wrote about China (4) |
| GOLDING | Nobel Prize-winning English novelist who wrote Lord of the Flies and the To the Ends of the Earth trilogy (7) |
| ISHIGURO | Kazuo -; Nobel Prize-winning novelist who wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go (8) |
| LLOSA | Nobel Prize-winning novelist who stood unsuccessfully for the presidency of Peru in 1990 (5) |
| BORISPASTERNAK | Nobel Prize-winning author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
