| ARROWSMITH | Sinclair Lewis novel for which he received (but declined) the Pulitzer Prize |
| GRAMMY | Music award once won but declined by Sinead O’Connor |
| ANNA | _ Christie, Eugene O'neill play for which he received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (4) |
| DOCTORZHIVAGO | Novel by Boris Pasternak for which he received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,7) |
| SORTIE | One of George H.W. Bush's 58 in 1944, for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross |
| THETURNINGPOINT | 1977 film for which he received an Oscar nomination, playing someone much like himself |
| HOTELDULAC | Novel for which Anita Brookner won the 1984 Booker Prize |
| PADDYCLARKEHAHAHA | Novel for which Roddy Doyle won the Booker Prize in 1993 |
| POSSESSION | Novel for which AS Byatt won the 1990 Booker prize |
| THEROAD | 2006 novel for which Cormac McCarthy won a Pulitzer Prize |
| OFTHEDAY | The Remains ___ 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro (birthday today) for which he won the Booker Prize and which was also adapted into a film: 3 wds. |
| LOST | ___ in Yonkers 1990 play by Neil Simon for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| PASTERNAK | In 1958 Russian writer Boris ... declined the Nobel prize for literature awarded for his novel, Dr Z |
| THREEJUNES | Debut novel for which Julia Glass won the 2002 National Book Award |
| ALL | ...And Justice for ___ 1979 film starring Al Pacino for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor |
| TULL | Agriculturist and agronomist who trained for the Bar but instead farmed his father's land and perfected the horse-drawn seed drill for which he is best known (4) |
| THEUNCONSOLED | 1995 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro for which he won the Cheltenham Prize: 2 wds. |
| BITES | Injuries are received but I get the best of it (5) |
| ACTSUPON | Deals with information received (but count the spa out) (4,4) |
| SARTRE | French philosopher, novelist, and dramatist who declined the 1964 Nobel prize for literature |