| HESSE | Hermann ---, Nobel laureate who wrote Steppenwolf |
| VSNAIPAUL | Nobel laureate who wrote "The Enigma of Arrival" |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; Nobel laureate who wrote The Great Illusion (6) |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | Nobel laureate who wrote The Forsyte Saga |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
| MANN | Nobel laureate who wrote Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus (4) |
| NERUDA | Pablo -; Chilean Nobel Laureate who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (6) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -; Nobel laureate who wrote poetry collections including Wintering Out, Field Work, The Haw Lantern and Human Chain (6) |
| ALBERTCAMUS | Nobel laureate who wrote L’Étranger and La Peste |
| BRIDGES | Robert ___, Poet Laureate who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) |
| JOHNMASEFIELD | Poet Laureate who wrote Salt-Water Ballads (4,9) |
| ADALIMON | Poet laureate who wrote The Hurting Kind |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| TATE | See 58 (0) Poet laureate who wrote a version of King Lear witha happy ending (5,4) |
| CECIL | British Poet Laureate who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, ... Day-Lewis |
| MICHAELMORPURGO | Former Children's Laureate who wrote the 1982 novel War Horse (7,8) |
| JOHNBETJEMAN | Poet Laureate, who wrote that Slough 'isn't fit for humans now' (4,8) |
| EINTHOVEN | Nobel laureate who devised the first practical electrocardiograph (9) |
| FRISCH | Norwegian Nobel laureate who founded the discipline of econometrics |