| 100% | ALBERT | 6 | Absurdist Nobel Prize-winning writer __ Camus |
| 59% | HAMSUN | 6 | Norwegian Nobel prize-winning writer Knut |
| 57% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning writer Tokarczuk who wrote "The Books of Jacob" |
| 57% | JAPAN | 5 | Home country of Nobel Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro |
| 55% | SAULBELLOW | 10 | Nobel Prize-winning writer honored on a 2024 U.S. postage stamp (2 wds.) |
| 54% | UREY | 4 | Nobel Prize winning physical chemist Harold ___ |
| 53% | CHEMISTRY | 9 | Nobel prize won by scientist Ernest Rutherford |
| 52% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | Nobel Prize-winning writer born February 27, 1902, who wrote 18-Across and 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 52% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, a Nobel prize winning author |
| 51% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize won by Al Gore and Barack Obama |
| 51% | ASTON | 5 | Francis William ___, Nobel prize winning English chemist |
| 50% | COETZEE | 7 | South African Nobel Prize winning author: J. M. __ |
| 50% | OBAMA | 5 | Two-time Grammy and Nobel Prize winning president |
| 50% | PEACE | 5 | Category of Nobel Prize won by Mother Teresa |
| 50% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel prize winner and writer ___ Wiesel |
| 49% | GORDIMER | 8 | South African Nobel-Prize-winning writer Nadine |
| 49% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel Prize category won by Malala Yousafzai |
| 48% | HEMINGWAY | 9 | US writer who won a Nobel Prize in lit in 1954 |
| 47% | PHYSICS | 7 | Nobel Prize in __; won by Marie Curie in 1903 |
| 47% | PEACE | 5 | Nobel ___ Prize (award won by Mother Teresa) |
| 47% | TWO | 3 | Number of Nobel Prizes Marie Curie won |
| 47% | MUNRO | 5 | Canadian writer Alice who won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 45% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Nobel Prize winning scientist Albert ___ whose writings were published as a book titled "Ideas and Opinions" |
| 45% | SADAT | 5 | Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian leader |
| 45% | DAG | 3 | Nobel prize-winning economist Hammarskjold |
| 45% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Prize-winning author Wiesel |
| 45% | SEAMUS | 6 | Nobel Prize-winning poet ___ Heaney |
| 45% | PEARLSBUCK | 10 | American writer who won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Literature (3 wds.) |
| 45% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Canadian writer who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |
| 45% | LOUISEGLUCK | 11 | American writer who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (2 wds.) |