| PAZ | Only Mexican Nobel laureate in Literature |
| SONORA | Only Mexican state that borders Baja |
| DYLAN | Bob ___, Nobel laureate in literature (5) |
| ITALIAN | Nationality of Nobel laureate in literature Dario Fo (7) |
| NERUDA | Pablo ---, Chilean Nobel laureate in literature |
| MARIE | Besides Linus, the only Nobel laureate in two fields |
| PESHAWAR | Conference potentially inviting Nobel laureate in Asian city (8) |
| LINUS | --- Pauling, Nobel laureate in Chemistry |
| BEAUTIFULMIND | 2001 American biographical drama film starring Russell Crowe based on the life of a Nobel Laureate in Economics Josh Nash A ___: 2 wds. |
| ABEAUTIFUL | ___ Mind American biographical drama film from 2001 based on the life of Nobel Laureate in Economics John Nash: 2 wds. |
| BRIDGES | Robert ___ (1844-1940), made Poet Laureate in 1913 (7) |
| ALFREDAUSTIN | Poet who succeeded Tennyson as poet laureate in 1896 |
| SUPERB | Wonderful windy burps inspiring laureate in the end (6) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred, Lord ___ (1809-92), appointed poet laureate in 1850 (8) |
| DRYDEN | 17th Century English playwright made Poet Laureate in 1668 (6) |
| DISPLEASE | Offend poet laureate in disorder (9) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Irish dramatist who adapted Shakespeare's King Lear with a happy ending and was appointed England's poet laureate in 1692 (5) |
| ROWE | Nicholas -; appointed poet laureate in 1715, the dramatist who wrote The Fair Penitent (4) |
| BLAKE | British illustrator and cartoonist, and Children's Laureate in 1999, Quentin ... |
| ROSEN | Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children's Laureate in 2007 (7,5) |