| 100% | LITERATURE | 10 | Field of Mauriac's Nobel Prize |
| 63% | SCI | 3 | Field of three Nobel Prizes: Abbr. |
| 47% | IRENE | 5 | Nobel Prize-winning daughter of the Curies |
| 47% | ELIOT | 5 | T S —, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 46% | SARTRE | 6 | Refuser of a 1964 Nobel Prize |
| 46% | OSLO | 4 | Home of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 46% | BORISPASTERNAK | 14 | Nobel Prize-winning author of 19-Across: 2 wds. |
| 45% | ELIHU | 5 | ___ Root, U.S. secretary of war who received a Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | ROOT | 4 | 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | ALFRED | 6 | Nobel of the Nobel Prizes |
| 42% | RABIN | 5 | Arafat's Nobel Prize sharer |
| 42% | AREA | 4 | Field of one's study |
| 41% | POLIO | 5 | Subject of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 41% | REDCROSS | 8 | Three-time winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | BARACKOBAMA | 11 | 44th President of the U.S. who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009: 2 wds. |
| 41% | WOODROWWILSON | 13 | 28th President of the U.S. who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919: 2 wds. |
| 41% | JIMMYCARTER | 11 | 39th President of the U.S. who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002: 2 wds. |
| 41% | KRONOR | 6 | The currency of the Nobel prize |
| 41% | MEDICINE | 8 | Wording of Nobel prize: Physiology or __ |
| 40% | OBAMA | 5 | Winner of two Grammys and a Nobel Peace Prize |
| 40% | ROENTGEN | 8 | Winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901 |
| 40% | DNA | 3 | Subj. of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine |
| 40% | OBE | 3 | Nobel's prize |
| 40% | OBE | 3 | Nobel's prize? |
| 38% | SCIENTISTS | 10 | Half of the Nobel Prize winners, typically |
| 38% | PABLO | 5 | ___ Neruda, Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet who wrote "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" |
| 38% | MLK | 3 | Monogram of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 37% | FIELDSMEDAL | 11 | So-called "Nobel Prize of Mathematics" |
| 37% | LAW | 3 | Attorney's field of expertise |