| NERNST | Walther, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (6) |
| HAMSUN | Knut -, Norwegian recipient of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature (6) |
| BIGBILLTILDEN | Nickname of the winner of the 1920, 1921 and 1930 Wimbledon men's singles |
| BENSON | E.F., British author of the 1920 novel Queen Lucia (6) |
| PERUTZ | Max Ferdinand ___, Austrian-born British biochemist; shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies in the structure of haemoglobin (6) |
| RAMSAY | William ___, Glasgow-born winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (6) |
| ARNOLD | Frances ___, a winner of the 2018 Nobel prize in chemistry (6) |
| GUBGUB | Pig in the 1920 children's book The Story of Doctor Dolittle (3-3) |
| CRISPR | In 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the ______-Cas9 genome editing technique |
| SANGER | Frederick -; considered the "father of genomics", the only person to have won two Nobel Prizes in chemistry (6) |
| PISTOL | Walther PPK, for one |
| EDITH | Wharton, author of the 1920 novel The Age of Innocence (5) |
| KETELBEY | English composer of the 1920 classical piece In a Persian Market (8) |
| ODOUL | Lefty of the 1920 Yankees |
| PAULING | Linus ___, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize (7) |
| HABER | Fritz -, winner of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements (5) |
| OTTOHAHN | German chemist awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 'for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei' (4,4) |
| HOUDINI | Author of the 1920 book 'Miracle Mongers and Their Methods' |
| PAAVO | Gold medalist Nurmi of the 1920, '24 and '28 Olympics |
| STRAVINSKY | Igor ___, composer of the 1920 ballet Pulcinella (10) |
