| CARLOSSANTANA | Weirdly nasal actor's an award-winning guitarist (6,7) |
| SANTANA | Grammy Award-winning guitarist, Carlos ___ |
| JESSE | Juno-winning guitarist Mr. Cook |
| VAI | Grammy-winning guitarist Steve |
| MEANJOEGREENE | Legendary Pittsburgh Steeler featured in an award-winning Coke commercial |
| ERICMORECAMBE | English comedian, part of an award-winning double act, who died in 1984 (4,9) |
| PLAYER | Word for an actor, an athlete, a gamer or an instrumentalist (6) |
| TAURUS | Star sign, and an award winning variety of rhododendron (6) |
| WOMBAT | Burrowing Australian marsupial, and an award-winning variety of rhododendron (6) |
| DOBRO | Legendary Spanish swordsman, and an award-winning variety of dahlia (5) |
| BELL | ___ And 'Arthur ___', an award-winning Floribunda (4) |
| OSPREY | Bird of prey, and an award-winning variety of penstemon (6) |
| WALTERS | With tweaks, could be an award-winning actress (7) |
| EROICA | Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, and an award-winning variety of bergenia (6) |
| SCIENCE | Brian Aldiss from Dereham was an award-winning ... fiction author (7) |
| THEBESTOFINVENTIONS | An award-winning new device? |
| IRONS | An award-winning ham or club sandwich starter |
| IONA | New Rochelle school with an award-winning pipe band |
| ATOM | Quantity of strontium in an award-winning 2018 photograph |
| MISSMUFFET | Nursery rhyme character, and an award-winning variety of Lavandula augustifolia (4,6) |
