| MARSALIS | Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music, trumpet player Wynton ... |
| WYNTON | Trumpeter Marsalis who won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| MCCOURT | 1997 Pulitzer-winning memoirist |
| NEDROREM | Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| ZWILICH | Ellen, winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music (7) |
| KENDRICKLAMAR | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music |
| SESSIONS | Roger --, winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Music (8) |
| DARIO | ___ Fo, Italian winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature (5) |
| LEANNRIMES | Winner of the 1997 Best New Artist Grammy (or homophonically, the starts of this puzzle's theme entries) |
| ORNETTE | ___ Coleman, American saxophonist whose album Sound Grammar received the 2007 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 |
| DARIOFO | Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature (5,2) |
| TITANIC | Winner of the 1997 Oscar for Best Picture. (7) |
| ROY | Arundhati ___, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize |
| 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) |
| KENDOHERTY | Winner of the 1997 World Snooker Championship (3,7) |
| LEONARD | Justin ....... , winner of the 1997 Open Championship at Royal Troon (7) |
