| GALSWORTHY | Novelist and dramatist whose The Forsyte Saga earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| THOMSON | Commemorated in Poets' Corner with a memorial designed by Robert Adam, a Scottish bard and dramatist whose The Seasons inspired works by the likes of Clare, Gainsborough, Haydn, Reynolds and Turner (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) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the novelist and dramatist whose 1839 play Richelieu contains the line "the pen is mightier than the sword" (6) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist and dramatist whose plays include A Month in the Country (8) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| DWAYNEJOHNSON | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle actor whose $124 million earned him the #2 spot in Forbes's ranking: 2 wds. |
| ALEXANDRE | --- Dumas, French novelist and dramatist whose works included The Three Musketeers (9) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre ---, French novelist and dramatist whose works include The Three Musketeers (5) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French novelist and dramatist whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| RICHARDI | King or "rex bellicosus" whose courage in battle earned him the epithet Coeur de Lion/Lionheart (7,1) |
| INGE | Priest and former assistant master at Eton whose pessimism earned him the nickname "gloomy dean" (4) |
| NERNST | Scientist whose formulation of the heat theorem known as the third law of thermodynamics earned him a Nobel Prize (6) |
| HENRYFIELDING | 18th Century English novelist and dramatist whose works included Tom Jones (5,8) |
