| 100% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel prize winner and writer ___ Wiesel |
| 63% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel prize winner ___ Wiesel |
| 61% | SPENCES | 7 | Economics Nobel prize winner, and namesakes |
| 61% | CURIE | 5 | Nobel Prize winner of 1903 and 1911 |
| 58% | CURIE | 5 | Marie ___, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and physics |
| 57% | BOB | 3 | Nobel Prize and Academy Award winner Dylan |
| 56% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wiesel |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | Nobel Prize winner ___ Joliot-Curie, whose parents were Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie |
| 55% | ELIE | 4 | "Night" author and Nobel winner, ___ Wiesel |
| 55% | IVAN | 4 | Physiologist and Nobel Prize winner, ___ Pavlov |
| 55% | IRENE | 5 | Nobel Prize winner ___ Joliot-Curie who is the daughter of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie |
| 54% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel |
| 53% | ELIE | 4 | 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel |
| 52% | OBAMA | 5 | Winner of two Grammys and a Nobel Peace Prize |
| 52% | GHEZ | 4 | Astronomer and 2020 Nobel Prize winner Andrea |
| 50% | LAUREATES | 9 | Nobel Prize winners |
| 50% | OLGA | 4 | Nobel Prize-winner Tokarczuk who wrote Primeval and Other Times |
| 50% | JOHNSTEINBECK | 13 | Nobel Prize-winning writer born February 27, 1902, who wrote 18-Across and 44-Across (2 wds.) |
| 49% | BOB | 3 | Nobel Prize winner Dylan |
| 49% | IVAN | 4 | Nobel prize winner Pavlov |
| 49% | HAHN | 4 | Nobel prize winner, Otto |
| 49% | MARIE | 5 | Nobel prize winner ___ Curie |
| 49% | WIESEL | 6 | Nobel prize winner elie |
| 49% | TONI | 4 | Nobel Prize winner Morrison |
| 49% | NIELS | 5 | Nobel prize winner Bohr |
| 49% | LAUREATES | 9 | Nobel Prize winners, e.g. |
| 49% | MOTHERTERESA | 12 | Roman Catholic nun and missionary; 1979 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 48% | BOHRS | 5 | Father-and-son Nobel Prize winners in physics |
| 48% | ELIE | 4 | ___ Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 48% | PINTER | 6 | Betrayal Nobel Prize winner |