| KNIGHTS | Those awarded the title "Sir" (7) |
| BARONET | Brit with the title "sir" |
| HONOURSLIST | Those awarded titles lean on kings and queens etc (7,4) |
| MICHELIN | - stars; hallmarks of restaurant quality, such as those awarded to Michel Roux Jr's Le Gavroche (8) |
| KNIGHTED | Given the title 'Sir' (8) |
| MASSENA | Andre, marshal in the armies of Napoleon who was awarded the title of Prince d'Essling (7) |
| AURELIAN | Emperor of Rome from 270 to 275, awarded the title Restitutor Orbis ('Restorer of the World') by the Senate (8) |
| CORTES | He was awarded the title of Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca |
| LESSING | British-Zimbabwean novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007; The Grass Is Singing (1950), The Golden Notebook (1962) etc. (5,7) |
| WHARTON | Edith -; novelist awarded the 1921 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for The Age of Innocence (7) |
| GOLDING | William -, Lord of the Flies author awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (7) |
| WHAUDEN | British-born US poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the 1947 work The Age of Anxiety (1,1,5) |
| MICHAEL | Sri Lanka-born Canadian writer awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018 for 1992's The English Patient (7,8) |
| NAIPAUL | Sir V S ___, Trinidadian-born novelist awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| RONTGEN | Scientist awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of x-rays (7) |
| WINDAUS | German organic chemist awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1928 for research on vitamin D (7) |
| RUSSELL | Bertrand ---, British philosopher awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| COLETTE | French author and actor who was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for literature (7) |
| OKEEFFE | Georgia --, American artist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 (7) |
| PRESLEY | American singer awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 2018 (7) |
