| 100% | HUME | 4 | John —, co-recipient with David Trimble of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 91% | JOHN | 4 | & 10A Co-recipient with David Trimble of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 60% | TRIMBLE | 7 | David —, politician who shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume |
| 50% | OBAMA | 5 | Recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 49% | ALVA | 4 | ___ Myrdal, co-winner of the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize for work with UN disarmament negotiations |
| 45% | IRA | 3 | Grp. behind the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 44% | ARAFAT | 6 | Yasser —, PLO Chairman; co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 44% | ARAFAT | 6 | Yasser —, former PLO Chairman; co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 44% | DAE | 3 | Kim ___-jung, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 44% | ROOT | 4 | 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 43% | ORR | 3 | Lord John Boyd ___, winner of the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | NEEL | 4 | Louis —, joint recipient with Hannes Alfven of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics |
| 42% | DALAILAMA | 9 | Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | MLK | 3 | Monogram of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 41% | IRAN | 4 | Home of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi |
| 40% | REDCROSS | 8 | Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues |
| 40% | SAKHAROV | 8 | Andrei —, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace prize |
| 40% | TUTU | 4 | Desmond —, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 39% | OSLO | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize city whose name begins and ends with the letter "O" |
| 39% | FWDEKLERK | 9 | Predecessor of 36-Across and sharer with him of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 38% | ALGORE | 6 | 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient |
| 38% | OSLO | 4 | Home of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 37% | THO | 3 | Le Duc ___, decliner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 37% | PEARSON | 7 | Lester B —, winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 37% | SADAT | 5 | 1978 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Anwar |
| 37% | ELLEN | 5 | Johnson Sirleaf who won a Nobel Peace Prize during her time as the President of Liberia |
| 37% | STEINBECK | 9 | John —, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 36% | SADAT | 5 | Anwar who shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin |