| NADINEGORDIMER | South African writer who won the 1974 Booker Prize with The Conservationist (6,8) |
| GORDIMER | Nadine, South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991 (8) |
| NADINE | ___ Gordimer, South African recipient of the 1974 Booker Prize and the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature (6) |
| STANLEYMIDDLETON | Author of the 1974 Booker Prize winning novel Holiday |
| ANDREBRINK | South African author who wrote A Dry White Season |
| PENELOPELIVELY | Author who won the 1987 Booker Prize with Moon Tiger (8,6) |
| BENOKRI | Nigerian writer who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) |
| KINGSLEYAMIS | Writer who won the 1986 Booker Prize with The Old Devils (8,4) |
| CATTON | Author who won the 2013 Man Booker Prize with The Luminaries (6) |
| MURDOCH | Iris, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize with The Sea, the Sea (7) |
| DAMONGALGUT | South African writer whose novel 'The Promise' won the 2021 Booker Prize (5,6) |
| ABBA | Pop group who won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Waterloo (4) |
| SATO | Japanese P.M. who won the 1974 Peace Prize |
| EISAKUSATO | Japanese prime minister who won the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize (6,4) |
| GRAHAMSWIFT | English writer who won the 1996 Booker Prize with Last Orders |
| EDDYMERCKX | Cyclist who won the 1974 Tour de France (4,6) |
| FILBERTBAYI | Tanzanian athlete who won the 1974 Commonwealth Games men's 1500m (7,4) |
| ANNABURNS | Northern Irish author who won the 2018 Booker Prize with her novel Milkman (4,5) |
| BROOKNER | Anita ---, British novelist who won the 1984 Booker Prize with Hotel Du Lac (8) |
| SOLPLAATJE | South African writer and politician; a founder member and first General Secretary of the SANNC (3,7) |
