| STEPHENHAWKING | Theoretical physicist who focuses on black holes and author of the best-seller, "A Brief History of Time" |
| FREY | James who wrote the best seller "A Million Little Pieces" |
| EBUN | ___ Sodipo, London-based artist whose work focuses on Black trans people |
| QUASARS | Powered by supermassive black holes and with red shifts of up to z=7.64, ultra-luminous galactic nuclei that are some of the universe's most distant known objects (7) |
| PENROSE | Roger -; co-recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes (7) |
| MUSE | Band which released the album 'Black Holes and Revelations' in 2006 (4) |
| SPAGHETTI | Angel hair-like pasta in the form of the long strings individuals would theoretically resemble if they were to fall into a black hole and be stretched by means of its noodle effect (9) |
| PEDANT | One who focuses on trivial things |
| APHIDREADER | Book lover who focuses on insects? |
| CIO | Exec who focuses on tech |
| JACOBS | A. J. ___, author of the best seller "The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest |
| YUTANG | Lin ___, author of the best seller "The Importance of Living" |
| DEEPING | Warwick ____, author of the best-seller Sorrell and Son |
| ROYKO | Author of the best seller "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago" |
| PRIXGONCOURT | French literary prize given to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year" |
| DIRAC | English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984) |
| SOBEL | Dava ___, author of the best seller "Longitude" |
| LEVINE | Mel, author of 2002 Times best seller "A Mind at a Time" |
| NESTS | Flying squirrels build ___ in holes and crevices of trees or in the forks of branches. They glide on the air from tree to tree or from trees to the ground by spreading out the muscle membrane between |
| KNOWLES | John who wrote the 1959 best seller "A Separate Peace" |
