| ALANPATON | South African author and anti-apartheid activist best known for Cry, The Beloved Country |
| PATON | Author and anti-apartheid activist who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country (5) |
| WEE | Synonym for tiny that becomes a synonym for cry when a "P" is added to the end |
| HUE | Companion for cry |
| WEEP | Another word for cry (4) |
| NADINEGORDIMER | South African writer and political activist awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature (6,8) |
| DESMONDTUTU | South African cleric and anti-apartheid activist who won the 1984 Prize (7,4) |
| SOLPLAATJE | South African writer and politician; a founder member and first General Secretary of the SANNC (3,7) |
| MALVINAREYNOLDS | American singer-songwriter and political activist best known for her songs Little Boxes and Morningtown Ride |
| TONYROBINSON | English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist best known for playing Baldrick in the TV series Blackadder |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African writer and political activist, d. 2014 (6) |
| ROSA | US civil rights activist best known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott, _ Parks (4) |
| LAURENS | ___ van der Post, South African writer and conservationist born in 1906 (7) |
| ALAN | South African author of Cry, the Beloved Country (4,5) |
| GRETA | Teenage Swedish environmental activist best known for challenging world leaders about climate change (5,8) |
| THUNBERG | Teenage Swedish environmental activist best known for challenging world leaders about climate change (5,8) |
| DESMOND | South African clergyman and anti-apartheid campaigner awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (7) |
| TUTU | South African clergyman and anti-apartheid campaigner awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 (4) |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African author awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise (5,6) |
| FISCHER | Bram, advocate and anti-apartheid activist, 1908-1975 (7) |
