| KAWABATA | Yasunari, Japanese author who won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature (8) |
| CASSIN | Rene ****** , French jurist who won the 1968 Nobel Peace Prize (6) |
| MISHIMA | Pen name of the Japanese author who wrote Forbidden Colours and the Sea of Fertility tetralogy; a nationalist who committed seppuku in 1970 (7) |
| HEINRICH | ___ BA¶ll, German author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972 (8) |
| MITCHELL | Author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937 for Gone With The Wind (8) |
| MURAKAMI | Haruki, Japanese writer noted for Kafka on the Shore (8) |
| MORRISON | Toni ---, American author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for her collected works (8) |
| FLANAGAN | Richard ___ author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| PATCHETT | Ann ---, author who won the Orange Prize for her novel Bel Canto (8) |
| MARGARET | ___ Atwood author who won the Man Booker Prize in 2000 for The Blind Assassin |
| PENELOPE | Author who won the Booker Prize for her 1987 novel Moon Tiger, _ Lively (8) |
| ISHIGURO | Surname of Anglo-Japanese author Kazuo (8) |
| DEREK | ___ Sanderson, Boston Bruin who won the 1968 Calder Memorial Trophy |
| MCLAREN | Bruce ___, F1 motor racing driver who won the 1968 Belgian GP (7) |
| BOWREY | William, men's singles tennis player who won the 1968 Australian Championships (6) |
| DICKFOSBURY | American athlete who won the 1968 Olympic men's high jump gold (4.7) |
| BEST | George ___, footballer who won the 1968 Ballon d'Or (4) |
| ASHE | Amateur who won the 1968 US Open |
| HEINRICHBOLL | German author who won the 1972 Nobel Prize for Literature (8,4) |
| NAT | "The Confessions of ___ Turner" (book that won the 1968 Pulitzer for Fiction) |
