| NEYO | Grammy Award winning American R&B artist born Shaffer Chimere Smith |
| USHER | American R&B artist with the hits OMG and Burn (5) |
| ORBISON | Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, Roy (7) |
| MCREYNOLDS | Jesse ___, Grammy award-winning American bluegrass mandolin player who has been a member of the Gran |
| BOBJAMES | Grammy Award-winning American jazz keyboardist who wrote Angela, the theme song for the TV series Taxi (3,5) |
| SISSYSPACEK | Academy Award-winning American actress (5,6) |
| NEELY | Blake ___, Emmy Award-winning American composer, conductor and orchestrator |
| ROTH | Award-winning American writer whose books portray middle-class Jewish life (4) |
| ANATOMY | Grey's ___, award-winning American TV medical drama (7) |
| KRAVITZ | Award-winning American singer/ songwriter who plays the role of Cinna in the Hunger Games film series (7) |
| KUBRICK | Stanley ---, Academy Award-winning American film director whose works include 2001: A Space Odyssey (7) |
| BLAKEEDWARDS | Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter and producer who married Julie Andrews in 1969 (5,7) |
| IVORY | Award-winning American film director, James Francis, best known his long collaboration with Ismail Merchant (5) |
| RUTHBROWN | American R&B singer-songwriter and actress awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 |
| BLUCANTRELL | American R&B singer born Tiffany Cobb in 1976 (3,8) |
| BLIGH | American R&B soul singer, Mary J _ (5) |
| STEVIEWONDER | American R&B legend (6,6) |
| KNEE | 1994 hit for American R&B group Boyz II Men, On Bended ---- (4) |
| BLIGE | American R&B soul singer Mary J _ (5) |
| JANELLEMONAE | American R&B singer with the 2018 album Dirty Computer: 2 wds. |
