| MOTHERTERESA | Roman Catholic nun and missionary; 1979 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| TERESA | 1979 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| MOTHER | 1979 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| WESTINDIES | 1975 and 1979 winners of the Cricket World Cup (4,6) |
| NBL | Basketball competition whose inaugural 1979 winner was St Kilda (1,1,1) |
| YASSERARAFAT | Palestinian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| ROUNDTHEBEND | Crazy nun and red-hot deb dancing (5,3,4) |
| ARDNAMURCHAN | A nun and hurricane lamps wandering Lochaber headland (12,9) |
| RESSA | Cofounder of Rappler and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021 for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression (surname only) |
| CORDELLHULL | US secretary of state who helped to found the United Nations; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 (7,4) |
| DESMONDTUTU | Previous Archbishop of Cape Town and holder of the Nobel Peace Prize (7,4) |
| SADAT | Anwar -, Egyptian president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (5) |
| PEARSON | Lester B. ___, Canadian diplomat and prime minister (1963-8); the first Canadian recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1957) (7) |
| NELSONMANDELA | Joint winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1993 |
| ORR | John Boyd ___, 1949 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| MALALA | Activist Yousafzai who is the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| MANDELA | Joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, with de Klerk, in 1993 (7) |
| URSULINES | Order of monastic Roman Catholic nuns founded at Brescia, N Italy, by St Angela Merici in 1535 (9) |
| REDCROSS | Three-time winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| SATO | Longest-serving prime minister of Japan (1964-72), co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 (6,4) |
