| NEDROREM | Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| ZWILICH | Ellen, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music (7) |
| MARSALIS | Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music, trumpet player Wynton ... |
| KENDRICKLAMAR | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music |
| SESSIONS | Roger --, winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Music (8) |
| MILTON | US monetarist; winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics (6,8) |
| LIPSCOMB | William N., winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (8) |
| ACHORUSLINE | Winner of the 1976 Tony Award for Best Musical (1,6,4) |
| WYNTON | Trumpeter Marsalis who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| LAMAR | 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner Kendrick |
| TANIALEON | Cuban-born composer who won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| SHAW | Caroline who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| MCKAY | Heather ?, winner of the 1976 and 1979 World Open squash championships (5) |
| ORNETTE | ___ Coleman, American saxophonist whose album Sound Grammar received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music |
| CHARLESIVES | US modernist composer whose Symphony No. 3 won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1947 (7,4) |
| ELLINGTON | Bandleader and pianist, 1899-1974, awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for music in 1999 (9) |
| ROREM | 1976 Pulitzer winner for "Air Music" |
| OUTLAW | What completes the title of the 1976 Clint Eastwood film The ___ Josey Wales? (6) |
| AMIK | ___ the beaver mascot of the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics |
| REDSMITH | 1976 Pulitzer-winning sportswriter |
